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Dynamic Kinetic Sensitization of β-Dicarbonyl Compounds—Access to Medium-Sized Rings by De-Mayo-Type Ring Expansion
A photocatalyzed ring expansion procedure for a two-carbon homologation of cyclic carbonyl compounds, towards medium-sized ring …
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Catalytic one-carbon homologation of α-amino acids to β-amino aldehydes
The development of a catalytic strategy for one-carbon homologation is of foundational importance in organic synthesis enabling quick …
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AIE-Active Difluoroboron Complexes with N,O-Bidentate Ligands: Rapid Construction by Copper-Catalyzed C−H Activation
The development of organic materials with high solid-state luminescence efficiency is highly desirable because of their fundamental …
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Triplet Energy Transfer Photocatalysis: Unlocking the Next Level
Energy transfer can leverage the enormous potential of excited-state reactivity. Through “indirect excitation” of substrates, otherwise …
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Machine learning the ropes: principles, applications and directions in synthetic chemistry
Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a general, problem-solving paradigm with many applications in computer vision, natural language …
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C−H Activation Based Copper-Catalyzed One-Shot Synthesis of N,O-Bidentate Organic Difluoroboron Complexes
Organic BF2 complexes exhibit characteristics such as large Stokes shift, high quantum yield, strong emission intensity, and robust …
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Understanding the Conformational Behavior of Fluorinated Piperidines: The Origin of the Axial-F Preference
Gaining an understanding of the conformational behavior of fluorinated compounds would allow for expansion of the current molecular …
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A Structure-Based Platform for Predicting Chemical Reactivity
Despite their enormous potential, machine learning methods have only found limited application in predicting reaction outcomes, because …
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Photosensitized Intermolecular Carboimination of Alkenes through the Persistent Radical Effect
An intermolecular, two-component vicinal carboimination of alkenes has been accomplished by energy transfer catalysis. Oxime esters of …
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Chain propagation determines the chemo- and regioselectivity of alkyl radical additions to C–O vs. C–C double bonds
Investigations into the selectivity of intermolecular alkyl radical additions to C–O- vs. C–C-double bonds in α,β-unsaturated carbonyl …
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