Introducing Glycerol as a Sustainable Solvent to Organolithium Chemistry: Ultrafast Chemoselective Addition of Aryllithium Reagents to Nitriles under Air and at Ambient Temperature

One-pot sustainable synthesis of tertiary alcohols by combining ruthenium-catalysed isomerisation of allylic alcohols and chemoselective addition of polar organometallic reagents in deep eutectic solvents

(2017) Luciana Cicco et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY

Exploiting Deep Eutectic Solvents and Organolithium Reagent Partnerships: Chemoselective Ultrafast Addition to Imines and Quinolines Under Aerobic Ambient Temperature Conditions

(2016) Cristian Vidal et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Key Non-Metal Ingredients for Cu-catalyzed “Click” Reactions in Glycerol: Nanoparticles as Efficient Forwarders

(2016) Marta Rodríguez-Rodríguez et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Deep Eutectic Solvents: The Organic Reaction Medium of the Century

(2016) Diego A. Alonso et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Organic synthesis reactions on-water at the organic–liquid water interface

(2016) Richard N. Butler et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Do group 1 metal salts form deep eutectic solvents?

(2016) A. P. Abbott et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Water opens the door to organolithiums and Grignard reagents: exploring and comparing the reactivity of highly polar organometallic compounds in unconventional reaction media towards the synthesis of tetrahydrofurans

(2016) Luciana Cicco et al.   Chemical Science

Unexpected lateral-lithiation-induced alkylative ring opening of tetrahydrofurans in deep eutectic solvents: synthesis of functionalised primary alcohols

(2015) Francesca C. Sassone et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Metal-Free Intermolecular Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition Promoted by Glycerol

(2015) Marta Rodríguez-Rodríguez et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Deep Eutectic Mixtures: Promising Sustainable Solvents for Metal-Catalysed and Metal-Mediated Organic Reactions

(2015) Joaquín García-Álvarez   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Reactivity of Polar Organometallic Compounds in Unconventional Reaction Media: Challenges and Opportunities

(2015) Joaquin García-Álvarez et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Understanding “On-Water” Catalysis of Organic Reactions. Effects of H+ and Li+ Ions in the Aqueous Phase and Nonreacting Competitor H-Bond Acceptors in the Organic Phase: On H2O versus on D2O for Huisgen Cycloadditions

(2015) Richard N. Butler et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Introducing Deep Eutectic Solvents to Polar Organometallic Chemistry: Chemoselective Addition of Organolithium and Grignard Reagents to Ketones in Air

(2014) Cristian Vidal et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Regioselective desymmetrization of diaryltetrahydrofurans via directed ortho-lithiation: an unexpected help from green chemistry

(2014) Valentina Mallardo et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) and Their Applications

(2014) Emma L. Smith et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Glycerol as Suitable Solvent for the Synthesis of Metallic Species and Catalysis

(2014) Faouzi Chahdoura et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

“The Great Beauty” of organolithium chemistry: a land still worth exploring

(2014) Vito Capriati et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Glycerol: a biorenewable solvent for base-free Cu(i)-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azides with terminal and 1-iodoalkynes. Highly efficient transformations and catalyst recycling

(2014) Cristian Vidal et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY

Low-Transition-Temperature Mixtures (LTTMs): A New Generation of Designer Solvents

(2013) María Francisco et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Gamma-valerolactone, a sustainable platform molecule derived from lignocellulosic biomass

(2013) David Martin Alonso et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY

Salty Glycerol versus Salty Water Surface Organization: Bromide and Iodide Surface Propensities

(2013) Zishuai Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Revitalizing the aromatic aza-Claisen rearrangement: implications for the mechanism of ‘on-water’ catalysis

(2013) Kaitlin D. Beare et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

2-Methyltetrahydrofuran (2-MeTHF): A Biomass-Derived Solvent with Broad Application in Organic Chemistry

(2012) Vittorio Pace et al.   ChemSusChem

Lactic acid as an invaluable bio-based solvent for organic reactions

(2012) Jie Yang et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY

Controlled Alcohol-Carbonyl Interconversion by Nickel Catalysis

(2011) Takehisa Maekawa et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Glycerol and derived solvents: new sustainable reaction media for organic synthesis

(2011) Alba E. Díaz-Álvarez et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Pd(II)-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Cross-Coupling of Potassium Aryltrifluoroborates with α-Oxocarboxylic Acids at Room Temperature

(2011) Mingzong Li et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

A Cobalt-Catalyzed Sulfonate/Copper Exchange for the Preparation of Highly Functionalized Electron-Deficient Aryl Copper Reagents

(2010) Christoph J. Rohbogner et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Intermolecular N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed Hydroacylation of Arynes

(2010) Akkattu T. Biju et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Mechanism of On-Water Catalysis

(2010) James K. Beattie et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Palladium-catalyzed cycloisomerization of (Z)-enynols into furans using green solvents: glycerol vs. water

(2010) Javier Francos et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY

Glycerol as a sustainable solvent for green chemistry

(2010) Yanlong Gu et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY

Organic Synthesis “On Water”

(2009) Arani Chanda et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Hydrogen bonding analysis of glycerol aqueous solutions: A molecular dynamics simulation study

(2009) Cong Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS

Recent progress on innovative and potential technologies for glycerol transformation into fuel additives: A critical review

(2009) Norhasyimi Rahmat et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

The rhodium-catalysed 1,2-addition of arylboronic acids to aldehydes and ketones with sulfonated S-Phos

(2009) James R. White et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Direct Acylation of Aryl Bromides with Aldehydes by Palladium Catalysis

(2008) Jiwu Ruan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY