Review
Chemistry, Organic
Xinyuan Zhang, Li Lin, Jing Li, Shiyu Duan, Yuhang Long, Jiahong Li
Summary: Medium-sized rings and macrocycles, which are crucial components in drugs and natural products, have attracted significant attention from chemists in developing simple, green, and efficient synthesis methods. Recent advancements in ring expansion/cyclization reactions for these compounds have been reviewed to outline the future prospects and development in this field.
CHINESE JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Organic
Dau Xuan Duc, Vo Cong Dung
Summary: Isoxazole derivatives are versatile compounds with a wide range of applications in medicinal chemistry, agriculture, and organic materials. They play important roles in various activities and can be converted into several key synthetic units, attracting intensive research attention from chemists.
CURRENT ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Organic
Bidyut Kumar Senapati
Summary: Furanosteroids are a class of novel pentacyclic fungal metabolites with a furan ring bridging at the 4 and 6 positions of the steroid skeleton, known for their potent anti-inflammatory, antibiotic, and antiproliferative properties. Chemists have made tremendous efforts to develop efficient synthetic strategies for these compounds due to their exciting biological activities.
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Hua Chen, Xuejiao Hu, Wanshu Wang, Lu Gao, Zhenlei Song
Summary: Silaspiranes bearing a spiro-silicon center are promising ring frameworks for synthesizing novel spirocyclic molecules with unique properties. This minireview highlights representative advances in the field and is categorized into four parts based on ring formation strategies.
CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Organic
Dimas J. P. Lima, Antonio E. G. Santana, Michael A. Birkett, Ricardo S. Porto
Summary: The study reviews the chemical ecology of ladybugs and recent methodologies for obtaining adaline, euphococcinine, and N-methyleuphococcinine.
BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Review
Biochemical Research Methods
Brian F. Pfleger, Ralf Takors
Summary: Energy is a complex field that has a significant impact on modern life. The combustion of fossil fuels, especially in the transportation sector, has been the dominant form of energy release. Biofuels, although a small fraction of liquid transportation fuels consumed each year, have gained importance.
CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jiaqi Ma, Haizhen Wang, Dehui Li
Summary: The combination of chiral materials and halide perovskites provides an ideal platform for designing optoelectronic and spintronic devices, with recent studies demonstrating the transfer of chirality into halide perovskites and creating chiral perovskites with various exceptional properties.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Pengyan Li, Yumin Liu, Muhammad Asim Mushtaq, Dongpeng Yan
Summary: Photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) ammonia synthesis is a promising method for energy development and N-neutralization under mild conditions. However, the mechanisms underlying the synergistic effect between light and electricity are still challenging. This review focuses on improving the performance of PEC catalysts and provides a systematic description of driven bias in PEC ammonia processes. Various strategies for fabricating new catalysts and the performance and mechanism of PEC N2 reduction are discussed. The current challenges and future prospects of PEC ammonia synthesis are also highlighted.
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Muhammad Abu Yousef, Ryosuke Matsubara
Summary: This review focuses on the recent advances in the synthesis and application of furoxan. Due to its labile nature, the synthesis of furoxan has been challenging compared to other heterocycles. However, recent studies have successfully employed the post-ring introduction of substituents (PRIS) strategy to form bonds on the furoxan ring, enabling more direct synthesis of desired furoxan molecules. This review classifies and discusses the PRIS strategy based on the type of bond formed and covers the recent progress in the application of furoxan molecules facilitated by new synthetic methods.
Review
Chemistry, Physical
Sriram Mansingh, Kundan Kumar Das, Kulamani Parida
Summary: The generation of sustainable and eco-friendly energy through electrocatalytic water splitting is essential, but faces challenges such as high cost and low efficiency. MoS2 shows promising catalytic performance for hydrogen evolution reactions under acidic conditions, but further improvements are needed for higher efficiency.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY & FUELS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Youming Huang, Jinyao Li, Hongyi Chen, Ze He, Qingle Zeng
Summary: Chiral sulfones are widely used in drugs, agricultural chemicals, chiral organic intermediates, and functional materials. The rapid development of synthetic methods for chiral sulfones in recent years is mainly attributed to the adoption of transition metal complex catalysts with chiral ligands and chiral organocatalysts.
Review
Chemistry, Analytical
Lei Wei, Xuebao Kuai, Yidi Bao, Jiangtao Wei, Liangliang Yang, Peishuai Song, Mingliang Zhang, Fuhua Yang, Xiaodong Wang
Summary: This paper reviews the latest research progress of MEMS/NEMS resonators with different structures and their applications in various fields. The aim is to classify resonators according to different structures and summarize their working principles, resonance performance, and applications.
Review
Chemistry, Organic
Yang Ye, Ying Lin, Nian-Dong Mao, Huimin Yang, Xiang-Yang Ye, Tian Xie
Summary: Alkenes are versatile building blocks in organic synthesis, and transition metal catalyzed difunctionalization reactions provide efficient access to substituted molecules. Nickel-based catalytic complexes have attracted attention due to their oxidative addition and slow beta-hydride elimination abilities. Various Ni-catalyzed cross-coupling methods have been developed, allowing for broad scopes and high tolerance to functional groups. However, challenges remain in expanding the types of carboboration reactions, diversifying electrophile types, and understanding the reaction mechanisms.
ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Abderrhmane Bouafia, Salah Eddine Laouini, Abdelaal S. A. Ahmed, Alexander V. Soldatov, Hamed Algarni, Kwok Feng Chong, Gomaa A. M. Ali
Summary: Nanoscience allows the development of new and cost-effective nanomaterials for energy, healthcare, and medical applications. Silver nanoparticles are increasingly synthesized for their superior physicochemical and electronic properties. This review summarizes the synthesis methods, properties, applications, and future challenges of Ag NPs.
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Jie Shang, Bo Li, Xin Shen, Tiezheng Pan, Zhiliyu Cui, Yangxin Wang, Yan Ge, Zhenhui Qi
Summary: Organic selenides are well-known for their coordination and catalytic functions in organic phase, but pose challenges in aqueous medium. This study introduces a new design route for organic selenide entities with appealing functions in aqueous solution by combining the hydrophilic body of crown ether with substitution of oxygen atom with selenium. The selenacrown ether C9Se exhibits amphiphile-like property and expands the catalytic activity of organic selenides to aqueous substrates in thiol/disulfide conversion through its nanosphere structure in water.
JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Fuying Zhu, Yamei Lin
Summary: In this study, a low-metal iron-supported catalyst (Fe20/NC-Mg) was reported for the efficient synthesis of quinoxaline compounds, using water as a solvent and without additional bases. The synergistic effect of FeNx site and Mg (OH)2 nanorods in the catalyst played a key role in achieving high yields (82-91%) in 16 examples. The gram-level synthesis and reusability of the catalysts after four cycles demonstrated its industrial application potential.
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Mikhail Kozlov, Alexey Tyurin, Andrey Dmitrenok, Vyacheslav Rusak, Aleksander Fedorov, Igor Zavarzin, Yulia Volkova
Summary: This study presents a novel and practical synthesis method for phosphorus-substituted 1,3,4-thiadiazolines using phosphorylthioformic acid hydrazides and ketones. The protocol demonstrates operational simplicity, availability of reagents, and tolerance towards different functional groups.
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Jisna Jose, Thomas Mathew
Summary: 2-Cyclopentenone and its derivatives are highly esteemed synthetic intermediates with exceptional utility in organic synthesis. They are favored structural motifs in numerous pharmaceutical drugs and natural products, highlighting their significance. The review discusses the various methods used to synthesize cyclopentenones from 2016 to 2023.