A Surprising Substituent Effect Provides a Superior Boronic Acid Catalyst for Mild and Metal-Free Direct Friedel-Crafts Alkylations and Prenylations of Neutral Arenes

Base-Promoted Protodeboronation of 2,6-Disubstituted Arylboronic Acids

(2014) Jerome Lozada et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

A systematic review on biological activities of prenylated flavonoids

(2013) Xi Chen et al.   PHARMACEUTICAL BIOLOGY

Cytotoxic potential of C-prenylated flavonoids

(2013) Karel Šmejkal   PHYTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Organoboron Acids and Their Derivatives as Catalysts for Organic Synthesis

(2013) Elena Dimitrijević et al.   ACS Catalysis

Boronic Acid Catalysis as a Mild and Versatile Strategy for Direct Carbo- and Heterocyclizations of Free Allylic Alcohols

(2012) Hongchao Zheng et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Non-asymmetric organocatalysis

(2012) Polyssena Renzi et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Structural and Energetic Landscape of Fluorinated 1,4-Phenylenediboronic Acids

(2012) Krzysztof Durka et al.   CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN

Direct Amidation of Carboxylic Acids Catalyzed by ortho-Iodo Arylboronic Acids: Catalyst Optimization, Scope, and Preliminary Mechanistic Study Supporting a Peculiar Halogen Acceleration Effect

(2012) Nicolas Gernigon et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Regioselective Cross-Coupling of Allylboronic Acid Pinacol Ester Derivatives with Aryl Halides via Pd-PEPPSI-IPent

(2012) Jennifer L. Farmer et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mild boronic acid catalyzed Nazarov cyclization of divinyl alcohols in tandem with Diels–Alder cycloaddition

(2012) Hongchao Zheng et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Friedel-Crafts Benzylation of Activated and Deactivated Arenes

(2011) Gabriel Schäfer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Waste-Free Catalytic Propargylation/Allenylation of Aryl and Heteroaryl Nucleophiles and Synthesis of Naphthopyrans

(2011) J. McCubbin et al.   SYNTHESIS-STUTTGART

Mild and selective boronic acid catalyzed 1,3-transposition of allylic alcohols and Meyer–Schuster rearrangement of propargylic alcohols

(2011) Hongchao Zheng et al.   Chemical Science

Calcium-Catalyzed Friedel-Crafts Alkylation at Room Temperature

(2010) Meike Niggemann et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A review of new developments in the Friedel–Crafts alkylation – From green chemistry to asymmetric catalysis

(2010) Magnus Rueping et al.   Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

Boronic Acid Catalysis for Mild and Selective [3+2] Dipolar Cycloadditions to Unsaturated Carboxylic Acids

(2010) Hongchao Zheng et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Direct Nucleophilic SN1-Type Reactions of Alcohols

(2010) Enrico Emer et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Boronic Acid Catalyzed Friedel−Crafts Reactions of Allylic Alcohols with Electron-Rich Arenes and Heteroarenes.

(2010) J. Adam McCubbin et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Mild and efficient boronic acid catalysis of Diels–Alder cycloadditions to 2-alkynoic acids

(2010) Hongchao Zheng et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Organocatalyzed Friedel–Crafts arylation of benzylic alcohols

(2010) J. Adam McCubbin et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Synthesis of Aminoboronic Acids and Their Applications in Bifunctional Catalysis

(2009) Irene Georgiou et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

π-Activated alcohols: an emerging class of alkylating agents for catalytic Friedel–Crafts reactions

(2009) Marco Bandini et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Prenylation of aromatic compounds, a key diversification of plant secondary metabolites

(2009) Kazufumi Yazaki et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Direct and Waste-Free Amidations and Cycloadditions by Organocatalytic Activation of Carboxylic Acids at Room Temperature

(2008) Raed M. Al-Zoubi et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Asymmetric Direct Amide Synthesis by Kinetic Amine Resolution: A Chiral Bifunctional Aminoboronic Acid Catalyzed Reaction between a Racemic Amine and an Achiral Carboxylic Acid

(2008) Kenny Arnold et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The advent and development of organocatalysis

(2008) David W. C. MacMillan   NATURE

Synthesis, evaluation and application of novel bifunctional N,N-di-isopropylbenzylamineboronic acid catalysts for direct amide formation between carboxylic acids and amines

(2007) Kenny Arnold et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY