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Spring 2023
Catalysis is essential to the modern chemical industry. Catalytic strategies can enable new synthetic methods with improved atom economy and reduced chemical waste under mild conditions, representing an indispensable approach to the development of green chemical processes with improved...
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Enantioselective Preparation of a cis-β-Boronyl Cyclobutylcarboxyester Scaffold and Its Highly Diastereoselective Nickel/Photoredox Dual-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling
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Chiral cyclobutanes are components of numerous bioactive natural products and consequently they have also gained significant attention in medicinal chemistry. Optically enriched cyclobutylboronates can serve as valuable synthetic intermediates for the synthesis of a broad variety of chiral...
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Expanding the Scope of Boronic Acid Catalysis: New and Improved Reactivity, Asymmetric Transformation
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Catalysis is one of the 12 Principles of green chemistry and offers numerous advantages over the conventional stoichiometric chemical procedures, such as reduction of waste, better atom economy, and lower energy consumption. Furthermore, the ability to lower the activation energy allows direct...
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Preparation and Application of Cyclic Chiral Organoboron Compounds for the Stereoselective Synthesis of Vacquinol-1 Analogs, and Trisubstituted Cyclobutylboronates
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Boron is a versatile atom in synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry. The formation of a variety of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds, and the ability to act as a pharmacophore makes boron a powerful tool in drug discovery. An area of drug discovery that remains underexplored with boron...
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Novel Aromatic Boron-Nitrogen Heterocycles: Synthesis, Properties and Applications in Biomedicine and Optoelectronics
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Heterocyclic chemistry often calls for an interdisciplinary approach to research. Novel structures invite study from both a fundamental and applied standpoint, and a given scaffold may have properties relevant to synthesis, medicine, catalysis, optoelectronics, and more. In recent decades, boron...
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Synthesis of Lipopolysaccharide O-antigens from Klebsiella pneumoniae Serotype O2a as Molecular Probes for Biosynthetic Studies
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Many Gram-negative bacteria are pathogenic organisms that can cause disease and death. As antibiotic resistance and nosocomial disease occurrences both increase, these infections are becoming more problematic. These issues can be partially attributed to lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which is a major...
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Fall 2017
The field of organic chemistry has seen remarkable advances throughout the decades. Of all advances, catalysis is playing a crucial role, since it can lower the activation energy of normally inert starting materials for further chemical reactions. In this context, the catalytic direct activation...
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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...
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Spring 2015
Asymmetric allylboration is a very useful and potent method for the synthesis of chiral homoallylic alcohols, a structural motif present in many natural products and biologically relevant molecules. B/Si double-allylation reagents have also been reported that can lead to chiral homoallylic...