Hydrogenation is a very common reaction in which H2 can be introduced through double or triple bonds and is widely used in both laboratory and industrial production. This reaction usually requires the presence of metal catalysts in order to carry out, in the presence of such catalysts, it is ...
Professor Karl Anker Jørgensen and his research team have synthesized (R)- and (S)-α,α-bis[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-2-pyrrolidinemethanol trimethylsilyl ether compounds, which excel as chiral organocatalysts for the direct and asymmetric α-functionalization process of aldehydes.
A highly effective nickel-catalyzed process enables the direct reductive cross-coupling of equimolar quantities of alkyl and aryl halides in the presence of manganese, demonstrating excellent yield, functional group compatibility, and operational simplicity. This transformation bypasses the ...
