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Boron-Mediated Lignocellulose Degradation. Design, Synthesis, Properties, and Applications of Boron-Containing Naphthoids
DownloadSpring 2023
Lewis acidity is a molecule’s tendency to accept a pair of electrons. Trivalent boron compounds are archetypical Lewis acids due to the presence of a vacant p orbital, leading to many uses in organic synthesis. For example, boron trihalides use their intrinsic Lewis acidity to accept ether oxygen...
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Fall 2015
Organic chemistry has its foundations in the 19th century; since, it has grown into a number of industries affecting our daily lives such as the manufacture of goods and life saving pharmaceuticals. The need for new and increasingly efficient synthetic methods has grown in response to the...