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Cooperative photoredox and chiral hydrogen-bonding catalysis

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00276C, Review Article
Yanli Yin, Xiaowei Zhao, Baokun Qiao, Zhiyong Jiang
Chiral hydrogen-bonding catalysis is a classic strategy in asymmetric organocatalysis. Recently, it has been used to cooperate with photoredox catalysis, becoming a powerful tool to access optical pure compounds via radical-based transformations.
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Double allylic defluorinative alkylation of 1,1-bisnucleophiles with (trifluoromethyl)alkenes: construction of all-carbon quaternary centers

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00121J, Research Article
Yingying Cai, Hao Zeng, Chuanle Zhu, Chi Liu, Guangying Liu, Huanfeng Jiang
Synthesis of symmetric gem-difluoroalkene substituted products bearing all-carbon quaternary centers via double allylic defluorinative alkylation of 1,1-bisnucleophiles with (trifluoromethyl)alkenes.
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Pd/light-induced alkyl–alkenyl coupling reaction between unactivated alkyl iodides and alkenylboronic acids

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00318B, Research Article
Hsin-Ju Huang, Yi-Ting Wang, Yen-Ku Wu, Ilhyong Ryu
Alkyl–alkenyl coupling reaction between unactivated alkyl iodides and 2-arylalkenylboronic acids utilizing a Pd/light combined system was studied.
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Folding of fluorinated oligoarylenes into non-alternant PAHs with various topological shapes

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00370K, Research Article
Vladimir Akhmetov, Andreas Förtsch, Mikhail Feofanov, Sergey Troyanov, Konstantin Amsharov
An unprecedented [6]helicene's cavity closure indicating the possibility of introducing seven-membered rings via alumina-mediated C–F activation is shown.
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Examining the vinyl moiety as a protecting group for hydroxyl (–OH) functionality under basic conditions

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00202J, Research Article
Vladimir V. Voronin, Maria S. Ledovskaya, Konstantin S. Rodygin, Valentine P. Ananikov
A method for the protection and deprotection of alcohols via vinylation and devinylation reactions is proposed. Stability of the vinyl protecting group under various conditions is studied and synthetic applicability is demonstrated.
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Access to SCN-containing thiazolines via electrochemical regioselective thiocyanothiocyclization of N-allylthioamides

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00300J, Research Article
Yan-An Zhang, Zhong Ding, Peng Liu, Wei-Si Guo, Li-Rong Wen, Ming Li
An electrochemical thiocyclization of N-allylthioamides has been developed for the synthesis of SCN-containing 2-thiazolines and NCS-containing thiazines.
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Discovery of new polycyclic polyprenylated acylphloroglucinols with diverse architectures as potent cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00259C, Research Article
Shuangshuang Xie, Changxing Qi, Yulin Duan, Qianqian Xu, Yaping Liu, Yingying Huang, Xu Yin, Weiguang Sun, Yuan Zhou, Yonghui Zhang
Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is a significant therapeutic target of chronic inflammatory diseases.
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Visible-light mediated oxidative ring expansion of anellated cyclopropanes to fused endoperoxides with antimalarial activity

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00168F, Research Article
Simon Budde, Felix Goerdeler, Johannes Floß, Peter Kreitmeier, Elliot F. Hicks, Oren Moscovitz, Peter H. Seeberger, Huw M. L. Davies, Oliver Reiser
Hetero- and carbocyclic anellated cyclopropanes were converted in one step by a visible light induced photooxidation to their corresponding polycyclic endoperoxides, which show promising antimalarial activity.
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Transition metal-catalyzed coupling of heterocyclic alkenes via C-H activation: Recent trends and applications

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00279H, Review Article
Sundaravel Vivek Kumar, Sonbidya Banerjee, Tharmalingam Punniyamurthy
Heterocyclic alkenes represent an important class of reactive feedstock and valuable synthons for the synthesis of biologically important heterocyclic scaffolds. Although functionalized heterocyclic alkenes and their derivatives can be accessed...
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Access to cyano-substituted pyrazolines through copper-catalyzed cascade cyanation/cyclization of unactivated olefins

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00282H, Research Article
Fei Meng, Qin Fang, Weidong Yuan, Ning Xu, Shujun Cao, Jianlin Chun, Jie Li, Honglin Zhang, Yingguang Zhu
A mild copper-catalyzed cascade cyanation/cyclization of hydrazone-tethered unactivated olefins was developed for the efficient and practical synthesis of cyano-containing pyrazolines.
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Organocatalytic 1,5-trifluoromethylthio-sulfonylation of vinylcyclopropane mediated by visible light in the water phase

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00343C, Research Article
Junkai Liu, Hong Yao, Xinnan Li, Hongyu Wu, Aijun Lin, Hequan Yao, Jinyi Xu, Shengtao Xu
1,2-Difunctionalization has developed into a robust tool for the preparation of complex organic molecules, and remote difunctionalization has also aroused widespread interest to achieve pluripotency of difunctionalization.
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Ag2O-catalysed nucleophilic isocyanation: selective formation of less-stable benzylic isonitriles

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00336K, Research Article
Taiga Yurino, Yuji Tange, Ryutaro Tani, Takeshi Ohkuma
Both primary and secondary benzylic isonitriles were exclusively produced by the Ag2O-catalysed reaction of benzylic phosphates and trimethylsilyl cyanide without formation of the thermodynamically favoured regioisomers, benzylic nitriles.
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Discrete boronate ester ladders from the dynamic covalent self-assembly of oligo(phenylene ethynylene) derivatives and phenylenebis(boronic acid)

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, 7,1082-1094
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00083C, Research Article
Vasileios Drogkaris, Brian H. Northrop
Reversible boronate ester chemistry enables the controlled, dynamic self-assembly of olig(phenylene ethynylene)s into highly conjugated ladder frameworks.
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Differential formation of nitrogen-centered radicals leading to unprecedented, regioselective bromination of N,N'-(1,2-phenylene)bisamides and 2-amidophenols

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, 7,1095-1106
DOI: 10.1039/C9QO01508F, Research Article
Damoder Reddy Motati, Dilipkumar Uredi, Amarender Goud Burra, J. Phillip Bowen, Frank R. Fronczek, Clint R. Smith, E. Blake Watkins
A highly efficient, site-selective, visible light-accelerated, remote C–H halogenation of unsymmetrical aromatic bisamides/amidoesters has been developed.
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Synthesis and biological evaluation of suffrutines A, B and their N-fused analogues

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, 7,1122-1131
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00050G, Research Article
Zefeng Zhu, Chun Chen, Jingxing Jiang, Qianzhong Zhang, Zhibo Du, Shuxian Wei, Xianheng Song, Jie Tang, Jinping Lei, Zhuofeng Ke, Yong Zou
The synthesis, structure confirmation, stability and isomerization features of suffrutines A, B and their N-fused analogues were reported. Biological tests showed that the introduction of nitrogen atom might be beneficial to the anticancer activity.
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Insights into N-heterocyclic carbene and Lewis acid cooperatively catalyzed oxidative [3 + 3] annulation reactions of α,β-unsaturated aldehyde with 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, 7,1113-1121
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00091D, Research Article
Xinghua Wang, Yang Wang, Jinshuai Song, Donghui Wei
N-Heterocyclic carbene and Lewis acid cooperatively catalyzed oxidative [3 + 3] annulation reactions of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds have been systematically studied in theory.
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Access to branched allylsilanes by nickel-catalyzed regioselective hydrosilylation of allenes

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, 7,1132-1136
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00156B, Research Article
Jia-Hao Zeng, Jun-Jia Chen, Li Chen, Zhuang-Ping Zhan
A Ni(acac)2/Xantphos-catalyzed hydrosilylation of allenes has been developed.
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The origin of regioselectivity in Cu-catalyzed hydrocarbonylative coupling of alkynes with alkyl halides

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, 7,1137-1148
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00214C, Research Article
Shengnan Liu, Jianbiao Liu, Qiong Wang, Jin Wang, Fang Huang, Wenjuan Wang, Chuanzhi Sun, Dezhan Chen
Steric interactions mediate a switch between a ketone and allylic alcohol in Cu-catalyzed hydrocarbonylative coupling of alkynes with alkyl halides.
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Transition-metal-free aerobic C–O bond formation via C–N bond cleavage

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, 7,1077-1081
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00173B, Research Article
Lirong Guo, Fengting Liu, Liying Wang, Hairui Yuan, Lei Feng, Haifeng Lu, Hongyin Gao
We disclosed a TM-free cascade SNAr-[3,3] rearrangement–rearomatization process for the efficient construction of NOBIN-type biaryls from readily available (hetero)arylhydroxylamines and aryltrimethylammonium salts under mild conditions.
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Anthranils: versatile building blocks in the construction of C–N bonds and N-heterocycles

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, 7,1177-1196
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00163E, Review Article
Yang Gao, Jianhong Nie, Yanping Huo, Xiao-Qiang Hu
This review article provides an overview of the recent progress in the transformations of anthranils, which have emerged as versatile building blocks in the assembly of various C–N bonds and medicinally active heterocyclic systems.
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Recent developments in palladium-catalyzed C–S bond formation

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00377H, Research Article
Jianxiao Li, Shaorong Yang, Wanqing Wu, Huanfeng Jiang
This review summarized the recent developments in palladium-catalyzed C–S bond formation involving sulfenylation and sulfonylation reactions.
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An Aspidosperma-type alkaloid dimer from Tabernaemontana bovina as a candidate for the inhibition of microglial activation

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00296H, Research Article
Yang Yu, Si-Meng Zhao, Mei-Fen Bao, Xiang-Hai Cai
As a representative of twelve undescribed Aspidosperma-type alkaloid dimers, tabernaemontine F (6) inhibited microglial activation by blocking P38 MAPK activation, revealing a potential candidate for chronic neurodegenerative diseases.
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Chiral strong Brønsted acid-catalyzed enantioselective addition reaction of simple olefins with ethyl glyoxylate

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00448K, Research Article
Jun Kikuchi, Yuki Aizawa, Masahiro Terada
An enantioselective intermolecular addition reaction of 1,1,2-trisubstituted and 1,2- disubstituted simple olefins with ethyl glyoxylate was developed using F10BINOL-derived N-sulfonyl phosphoramide as a chiral strong Brønsted acid catalyst.
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Phosphine/Palladium Cooperative Catalysis: Enantioselective [5+4] Annulations of ortho-Quinone Methides and Vinylethylene Carbonates

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00128G, Research Article
Chao Xia, Dong-Chao Wang, Gui-Rong Qu, Hai-Ming Guo
Highly enantioselective [5+4] annulations of ortho-quinone methides with vinylethylene carbonates were enabled by phosphine/palladium asymmetric cooperative catalysis for the first time. Efficient synthesis of various nine-membered benzo-heterocycles was achieved in...
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Mechanism and Origins of Stereo- and Enantioselectivities of Palladium-Catalyzed Hydroamination of Racemic Internal Allenes via Dynamic Kinetic Resolution: A Computational Study

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00174K, Research Article
Zhenzhen Wu, Mei Zhang, Yu Shi, Genping Huang
Density functional theory calculations have been performed to investigate the Pd-catalyzed hydroamination of racemic internal allenes with pyrazoles. The computations show that the originally proposed reaction mechanisms initiated by the...
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Catalyst-Controlled Formal [4+1] Annulation of N-Vinyl Fluorenone Nitrones and Allenoates to Prepare Spirofluorenylpyrrolines

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00224K, Research Article
Cui Wei, Jin-Qi Zhang, Jia-Jie Zhang, Cui Liang, Dong-Liang Mo
We report a readily commercial Gimeracil-catalyzed formal [4+1] annulation approach for the synthesis of spirofluorenylpyrrolines in good yields with high diastereoselectivity from easily available N-vinyl fluorenone nitrones and allenoates. The...
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A Vinylogous Michael Reaction of 2-Furanones Dimers to α, β-Unsaturated Nitroolefins for Constructing Chiral γ, γ-Disubstituted Butenolides

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00376J, Research Article
Zhushuang Bai, Cairong Zhang, Yongyi Chen, Aiqin Liu, Xinyu Wang, Chuna Yan, Xuechao Liu, Xiaoru Zhang, Ying Li, Ye Yuan, Zemei Ge, Jingxiang Pang, Yongshuai Chai, Xin Wang, Runtao Li
An efficient bifunctional thiourea catalyzed asymmetric vinylogous Michael addition of 2-furanones dimers to α, β-unsaturated nitroolefins has been developed to give the functional chiral γ,γ-disubstituted butenolides in good yields (up...
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Rhodium(III)-catalyzed synthesis of 3-trifluoromethylindanones from N-Methoxybenzamides via C-H activation and Claisen/Retro-Claisen reaction

Org. Chem. Front., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0QO00330A, Research Article
Satyasheel Sharma, Bharatkumar Chaudhary, Neeraj Kulkarni
The Rhodium(III)-catalyzed reaction of N-methoxybenzamides as a directing group with β-trifluoromethyl-α,β-unsaturated ketones is reported. The reaction involved sp2 C−H activation, followed by Claisen condensation involving C-N bond cleavage to form...
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Writing scientific papers in English : an ELSE-Ciba Foundation guide for authors / Maeve O'Connor and F.Peter Woodford

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The ACS style guide : a manual for authors and editors / Janet S. Dodd, editor ; Marianne C. Brogan, advisory editor




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Communicating in science : writing and speaking / Vernon Booth

Booth, Vernon




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Writing successfully in science / Maeve O'Connor ; with cartoons by Jenny Gretton

O'Connor, Maeve




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A guide to scientific writing : manual for students and research workers / David Lindsay

Lindsay, David




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Communicating in science : writing a scientific paper and speaking at scientific meetings / Vernon Booth

Booth, Vernon




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A primer of mathematical writing : being a disquisition on having your ideas recorded, typeset, published, read and appreciated / Steven G. Krantz

Krantz, Steven G. (Steven George), 1951-




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How to write & illustrate a scientific paper / Björn Gustavii

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A guide to scientific writing / David Lindsay

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Nanotechnology and the environment : applications and implications / Barbara Karn ... [et al.], [editors]




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Introduction to nanoscale science and technology / edited by Massimiliano Di Ventra, Stephane Evoy. James R. Heflin




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Applied physics of carbon nanotubes : fundamentals of theory, optics and transport devices / S.V. Rotkin, S. Subramoney (eds.)




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Nanotechnology focus / Eugene V. Dirote (editor)




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Nanoparticles : building blocks for nanotechnology / edited by Vincent Rotello




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Nanotechnology : environmental implications and solutions / Louis Theodore, Robert G. Kunz ; foreword - Rita D'Aquino

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Nanostructured and advanced materials for applications in sensor, optoelectronic and photovaltaic technology / edited by A. Vaseashta, D. Dimova-Malinovska and J. M. Marshall

NATO Advanced Study Institute on Nanostructured and Advanced Materials for Applications in Sensors, Optoelectronic and Photovoltaic Technology (2004 : Sozopol, Bulgaria)




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The nanotech pioneers : where are they taking us? / Steven A. Edwards

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Handbook of semiconductor nanostructures and nanodevices / edited by Alexander A. Balandin, Kang L. Wang




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What is what in the nanoworld : a handbook on nanoscience and nanotechnology / Victor E. Borisenko and Stefano Ossicini

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Nanostructured coatings / edited by Albano Cavaleiro and Jeff Th. M. de Hosson




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Nanostructures : novel architecture / Mircea V. Diudea, editor




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Nanotechnology at the leading edge / Eugene V. Dirote (editor)