(Un)touchable
January 25, 2016Ni/Cu-Catalyzed Defluoroborylation of Fluoroarenes for Diverse C–F Bond Functionalizations Using a mixed catalytic system to promote the transformation of aromatic fluorides…
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More Drugs, Please
January 21, 2016One size does not fit all: Challenging some dogmas and taboos in drug discovery This brief review by Chai (Singapore) and…
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PyFluor – OH Replacement Service
October 30, 2015PyFluor: A Low-Cost, Stable, and Selective Deoxyfluorination Reagent A new reagent for the replacement of aliphatic hydroxy groups by fluorine. In…
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Multimetals for Biaryls
October 23, 2015Multimetallic catalysed cross-coupling of aryl bromides with aryl triflates A catalytic system using two metals allows the synthesis of biaryl products…
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Finally!
October 9, 2015A Fluorinated Ligand Enables Room-Temperature and Regioselective Pd-Catalyzed Fluorination of Aryl Triflates and Bromides The development of a new phosphine ligand…
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An Old Reaction Revisited
June 30, 2015Chemoselective Reductive Amination of Carbonyl Compounds for the Synthesis of Tertiary Amines Using SnCl2·2H2O/PMHS/MeOH A new protocol for a reductive amination…
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Not So Easy
June 23, 2015Synthesis of Heteroaryl Sulfonamides from Organozinc Reagents and 2,4,6-Trichlorophenyl Chlorosulfate Access to sulfonated heterocycles using zincates and the reagent TCPC. It…
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New CO-nditions
June 10, 2015Aminocarbonylation of Aryl Tosylates to Carboxamides Generation of aromatic amides using CO, amines and aryl tosylates as coupling substrates. This is…
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Bubbles
June 8, 2015Oxalyl Chloride as a Practical Carbon Monoxide Source for Carbonylation Reactions A new way to get a balloon filled with CO…
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June 1, 2015Ipso-Borylation of Aryl Ethers via Ni-Catalyzed C–OMe Cleavage The OMe moiety used as entry point for the borylation of aryl and…
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