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L&T Construction reduces timelines by 50% with 3D printing technology

‘By using this technology, a villa project that would typically take 24 to 36 months can be completed in 12 months’




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Pulkit TMT introduces innovative ‘Lab on Wheels’ for quality testing in Kerala 

The initiative aims to raise awareness about the significance of using high-quality TMT bars in construction projects and empower consumers, builders, and dealers to make informed decisions about their steel choices.




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Surge in bank credit to CRE linked to high demand for office and warehouse space

With leasing activities surging across major cities and growing interest from big industrial groups, the commercial real estate market shows promising prospects for future lending and growth




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Ajoy Mehta leaves behind a more compliant real estate sector in Maharashtra

The Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority’s outgoing chairman did not shy away from wielding the regulatory whip, ensuring that builders realised that homebuyers have the right to expect timely delivery of their houses, with all the promised amenities




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Meghna Infracon expands portfolio with new Mumbai residential project 

The project aims to offer 1 and 2 BHK luxurious apartments, with construction already underway




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Bengaluru residential real estate soars amid high demand and limited inventory

Areas such as Bagaluru, Hennur, Whitefield, and Varthur-Sarjapur are witnessing substantial price increases, attributed to pent-up demand from the pandemic




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India’s housing market witnesses cooling trend as price surge crowds out buyers

Luxury home sales buck the trend of sequential slowdown, with houses priced above Rs one crore rupees accounting for nearly 40 per cent of the total home sales in the last quarter




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Signature Global to deliver 16 msf houses over next two years

The real estate developer is targeting collections of ₹3800 crore in the current fiscal year




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RMZ offers 0.3 million sqft of commercial space to Chevron Global Technology in Bengaluru

The CEO of RMZ Office and RMZ NXT, Thirumal Govindraj, highlighted India’s appeal for GCC expansion due to sophisticated, tech-powered workspaces and lower office rentals




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Shriram Finance raises $500 million via social bonds

Plans to list insurance arms and focus on retail bad loans




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Shriram Properties launches 1.1 million sq ft residential project in Chennai

“Located in the rapidly growing West Chennai corridor, this RERA-approved development offers a total saleable area of 1.1 million sq ft (msf) and has a revenue potential of around ₹550 crore to ₹600 crores”




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Institutional investments in real estate advance 45% in July-September: Colliers

Alternate assets, which include data centres, life sciences and schools, did not receive any funding in July-September.




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Nyati Group onboards Navigo’s futuristic capabilities to boost sales 

The move aligns with the Group’s vision of utilizing cutting-edge technology to improve the home-buying experience and boost operational efficiency in property sales




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Bengaluru Airport City Ltd breaks ground for 2 million sqft Business Park to boost GCC growth

The Airport city is expected to host a network of business parks comprising 52 per cent of its overall development




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Housr plans to open around 30 co-living centres with 3,000 beds

Housr aims to have over 8,000 beds in 100 properties by March 2025




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Pune’s home sales value surges 19% in Q3 2024 despite a slight dip in transactions

Based on data from the Inspector General of Registration (IGR), the city’s home sales value jumped 19 per cent year-on-year (YoY), reaching ₹13,865 crore




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Godrej Properties Q2 net profit surges fivefold; bottomline aided by deferred tax liability

During the quarter, Godrej Properties sold houses worth ₹5,198 crore, up 3 per cent on year while collections rose 68 per cent to ₹4,005 crore




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DLF Q2 consolidated net profit up 121 per cent

Consolidated revenues saw a 48 per cent increase y-o-y to ₹2,181 crore. It stood at ₹1,477 crore in the year-ago-period.




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WeHouse streamlines home construction with transparency, expands to Tier-II cities

By dividing the construction journey into 24 well-defined milestones, the startup provides clients with complete visibility into their projects, aligning payments with milestones to build trust




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Biz families of Tier-II cities drive-up ultra luxury residential demand in North & West India

‘The Dahlias’ – realty major DLF’s upcoming super-luxury residential project in Gurgaon with units priced upwards of ₹80 crore – is witnessing active buyer interest from some of these Tier-II city-based business families




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IHCL acquires majority stake in Tree of Life Resorts, plans major expansion 

IHCL plans to expand the Tree of Life portfolio from its current 19 properties (plus 2 under development) to 100 properties by 2030




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Brigade to invest ₹800 crore to develop 1 million sq ft residential apartments in West Chennai

West Chennai is one of the fastest growing parts of the city




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‘India an outlier as global real estate slowly returns to normalcy’

The big difference with India is that we saw when the GCCs retracted for a time, the Indian domestic market filled that void. And we’re about to see the largest take-up in offices probably in 2024. And that is a strong diversified market: William Beardmore-Gray




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Nimble fingers, desolate lives

Handloom textiles are sought after in the domestic and foreign market, but both Centre and states have done precious little to improve the living conditions of traditional weavers




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Showcase: Craft and calligraphy

Akshara attempts to link two of India’s crucial cultural properties — language and crafts — and energise them in unusual ways.




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Handcrafted for Deepavali

By Hand From The Heart returns with its Deepavali display of handcrafted products commencing today




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Get stylish, the jute way

Showcasing a variety of products in jute




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Artisans steal the limelight




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A slice of the rural

Generous portions of rich food, sprawling houses, folk arts, skill games and animal rides… There’s never a dull moment at Chokhi Dhani Village





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Kondapalli toys get a new lease of life

An incentivised training programme is helping a quiet revival of Kondapalli toys, and at the fore are craftswomen



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Pyrrolylsulfonium salts: stable, accessible and versatile pseudohalides for Stille couplings

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01793E, Research Article
Open Access
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Jodie L. Hann, Catherine L. Lyall, Gabriele Kociok-Köhn, Simon E. Lewis
Pyrroles functionalised with a thianthrenium or diphenylsulfonium group undergo Stille couplings with aryl or alkynyl stannanes in good yields, avoiding the issues of instability that can hamper the use of the analogous pyrrolyl halides.
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Multi-step chirality transfer and racemization kinetics of pillar [5]arenes by tuning the halogen substituents on the rims

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01799D, Research Article
Lizhi Fang, Xiaowen Guan, Yanling Shen, Dayang Zhou, Long Chen, Xiaochuan Chen, Wanhua Wu, Leyong Wang, Cheng Yang
Halogen-substituted pillar[5]arenes exhibited hindered hydroquinone subunit flipping, enabling enantioseparation.
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C–H acylation as an enabling tool to tag phenolic drugs

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01505C, Research Article
Open Access
Carlota Girón-Elola, Arkaitz Correa
A Pd-catalyzed directed C–H acylation of a collection of intricate phenol-containing compounds with ethanol and other alcohols and aldehydes is reported.
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Shaping cycles with light: a regiodivergent approach to tetracyclic aza-aromatic compounds

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01606H, Research Article
Open Access
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Clara Mañas, Belén Ibarra, Estíbaliz Merino
We present a novel visible light-promoted regiodivergent cyclization, enabling the selective synthesis of distinct azapolyaromatic regioisomers from 2-alkynlazobenzenes.
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Visible-light heterogeneous photocatalysis with an ionic porous organic polymer (IPOP): synthesis of β-keto sulfoxides and benzothiophene diesters by tandem radical addition–oxidation reactions

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01382D, Research Article
Ajay Kumar Sahoo, Parag Tamuly, Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy
An IPOP, constructed constructed from cyanuric chloride and the readily accessible 2,5-di(pyridin-4-yl)thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole (BpyTzTz), is shown to exhibit excellent visible light absorption and serve as a metal-free heterogeneous photocatalyst.
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Unravelling the different pathways of cyclohexene oxidation via a peroxyl radical generated from tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) by various metal salts

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01681E, Research Article
Lu-Jian Zhou, Xiao-Hui Liu, Han-Wen Zhang, Can Xue, Han-Kang Zhong, Xian-Tai Zhou
Two different mechanisms were obtained in the selective oxidation of cyclohexene catalyzed by CuCl2 and VCl3 respectively in presence of TBHP. The two opposed mechanisms are mainly caused by the roles of the t-BuOO˙ radical in catalytic oxidations.
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Iron-catalyzed thiolation of C(sp3)–H with sulfonyl chlorides via photoinduced ligand-to-metal charge transfer

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01488J, Research Article
Sheng-Ping Liu, Lan Yang, Yan-Hong He, Zhi Guan
A photoinduced FeCl3/HCl synergistic catalytic method enables C(sp3)–S bond formation via reductive cross-coupling of activated/inert C(sp3)–H and aryl/alkyl sulfonyl chlorides through ligand-to-metal charge transfer (LMCT).
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Palladium-catalyzed hydrocarbonylative cross-coupling with two different alkenes

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01312C, Research Article
Yi Chen, Jianing Wu, Yongzheng Ding, Hanmin Huang
Transition metal-catalyzed hydrocarbonylation of alkenes has been widely studied; however, the hydrocarbonylation reaction that took place between two alkenes has been largely unexplored.
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HSAB theory guiding electrophilic substitution reactions of o-carborane

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01546K, Research Article
Yan Wang, Yi-Ge Li, Feijing Chen, Yan-Na Ma, Xuenian Chen
Herein, we systematically compared the reactivity of o-carborane and benzene toward different electrophiles and explained the results with the HSAB principle.
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Mechanistic insight into the dehydrogenation reaction catalyzed by an MLC catalyst with dual ancillary ligand sites

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01767F, Research Article
Gui-Xiang Zhou, Cheng Hou
This study reveals a mechanism in which a ruthenium complex catalyst improves catalytic efficiency and lowers the energy barrier in the dehydrogenation of benzyl alcohol by dynamically switching ligand sites.
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Metal-free visible-light-induced borylative/silylative pyridylation of vinylarenes

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01702A, Research Article
Yiting Zhou, Bin Liu
We present a metal-free and mild three-component reaction involving vinylarenes, NHC–BH3 complexes, hydrosilanes, and 4-cyanopyridine. Remarkably, this reaction was performed with simple and inexpensive benzophenone.
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Synthesis of bambusurils with perfluoroalkylthiobenzyl groups as highly potent halide receptors

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01746C, Research Article
Open Access
Matúš Chvojka, Hennie Valkenier, Vladimír Šindelář
Four new fluorinated bambusuril macrocycles were prepared to show exceptional high binding affinity towards halide anions in acetonitrile.
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Stereoselective access to furan-fused [5.5.0] bicyclic heterocycles enabled by gold-catalyzed asymmetric [8 + 4] cycloaddition

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01841A, Research Article
Xunhua Wang, Jianhua Wang, Xiaoxun Li
A gold-catalyzed asymmetric [8 + 4] cycloaddition was developed to afford highly functionalized furan/pyrrole-fused [5.5.0] polycyclic heterocycles with good diastereo- and enantioselectivity.
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Photoinduced cobaloxime catalysis for allylic mono- and diphosphinylation of alkenes with hydrogen evolution

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01638F, Research Article
Aijun Zhang, Miao-Miao Li, Lei Guo, Huaixiang Yang, Jiefei Guo, Da Xu, Wei Ding
A highly efficient allylic radical mono- and diphosphinylation of alkenes with secondary phosphine oxides is developed, via visible-light-induced cobaloxime catalysis.
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Visible-light mediated selective phosphonylation modification of tryptophan residues in oligopeptides

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11,6287-6292
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01028K, Research Article
Wenfang Xiong, Junye He, Jinyao Liu, Peiru Chen, Shiqi Xu, Yipeng Liu, Shiting Chen, Yuanyuan You, Zhenyu Chen, Jinwu Zhao
A direct C2-H phosphonylation strategy driven by visible light for specific modification of tryptophan-containing peptides has been reported, providing a plethora of phosphorylated tryptophan-containing peptides
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Towards the total synthesis of mandelalide B: construction of the tetrahydrofuran/α-hydroxyl lactone fragment

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11,6353-6357
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01433B, Research Article
Jia-Lei Yan, Jie Yu, Yingying Cheng, Mingze Yang, Zhengshuang Xu, Tao Ye
A stereocontrolled synthesis of the tetrahydrofuran/α-hydroxy lactone fragment of mandelalide B has been accomplished. The synthesis features a Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons fragment assembly strategy and a highly stereospecific iodine-induced cyclization.
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Visible-light excited copper activating unactivated alkyl iodides for radical addition/cyclization to access oxindole derivatives

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11,6380-6384
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01329H, Research Article
Hang Luo, Fangnian Yu, Luqing Lin
The photocopper catalyst facilitates halogen atom transfer to give unactivated alkyl radicals, which is critical for achieving radical cyclization in the absence of an exogenous photocatalyst.
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Structure determination of difficult-to-crystallize organic molecules by co-crystallization of a phosphorylated macrocycle

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11,6358-6366
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01498G, Research Article
Heng Li, Zhijin Li, Juli Jiang, Chen Lin, Leyong Wang
This work reported that 37 different difficult-to-crystallize guest molecules were co-crystallized with the host macrocycle F[3]A1-[P(O)Ph]3 at room temperature, and the molecular structures of the guests could be determined by SCXRD.
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Phosphine-controlled divergent reactions of MBH-carbonates with azaheptafulvenes: access to o-anilinyl diene and benzazepine derivatives

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11,6418-6425
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01298D, Research Article
Wei Hao, Yiwen Zhang, Xiao Han, Zhen Wang, Weijun Yao
A phosphine controlled divergent cascade reaction of MBH-carbonates with azaheptafulvenes was disclosed. PPh3 provided o-aminophenyl diene while PCy3 offered benzazepine derivative through formal [8 + 3] annulation/ring contraction cascade.
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