Cu(II) exclusively detectable. Cu(I) can't be stabilized.

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This paper reports the chemosensing properties of a commercially available fluorescent probe, 1,8-diamino naphthalene for copper ion detection in the aqueous medium and its application in bioimaging. The proposed mechanism involves fluorescence...

Exact Procedure Not Provided By Authors

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The first simple cyclic silyl peroxide, namely 1,1,4,4,-tetramethyl-1,4-disila-2,3-dioxane, was prepared by classical synthetic methodology from its corresponding cyclic disilazane and the urea complex of hydrogen peroxide.

The Reaction of...

Well established computational procedure

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This paper describes the analysis of methods and basis sets for theoretical calculations on oxorhenium(V) complexes. A variety of ligand systems with different coordinating atoms (N, O, P, S, Cl, and Se) were incorporated into this study. Two...

Easy process to reproduce

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A simple, convenient, and environment-friendly method for synthesis of 1,2-disubstituted benzimidazoles in high yields under extremely mild conditions, has been described. The methodology described, involves condensation of o-phenylenediamine...

Several Recommendations for Improved Synthesis

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A practical synthesis of 11-membered C2-symmetric binaphthyl ketone (R)-1, a catalyst for asymmetric epoxidation, was developed. This manuscript describes the single example of chiral resolution of (±)-1,1’-Binaphthyl-2,2’-dicarboxylic acid [(±)-6...

Lacking complete isolation/purification procedures

This article reported the synthesis of different sulfonyl chloride of polynuclear heterocyclic compounds which are very important intermediates to form different derivatives like sulfonates. Unfortunately, this paper is lacking a complete isolation and...

4-methylquinoline oxidation really works

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This article/communication described the preapration of 2 and 4-quinolinecarboxaldehyde using 2 and 4-methylquinoline in the presence of selenous acid in refluxing dioxane. While the procedure explicitly stated the use of selenous acid, selenium...

Slight adjustments will give more yields

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This paper reports an efficient method for synthesising benzimidazoles through cascade reactions of o-haloacetoanilide derivatives with amidine hydrochlorides. 10 mol % CuBr was used as the catalyst and Cs₂CO₃ as the base. The reactions were...

Good Synthesis procedure

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An efficient and green method for synthesis of 2 substituted benzimidazoles has been described. Despite previous methods being available in literature for synthesis of such compounds, the ease of operation, use of common and non-toxic solvent and...

Neat but a bit complicated synthesis

Yttrium oxysulfide – Y₂O₂S is knows an excellent host material for the Eu(III) activated red emission phosphor, which has been used for decades in the CRT displays and conventional TV due to its excellent brightness, color purity, life time and compatibility...

Good synthesis method

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This paper reports an efficient method for aldol condensation between a methyl 3-hydroxy-5-oxohexanoate derivative and a pyrimidine carbaldehyde comprising the core structure of rosuvastatin. The authors have described the method as an...

Good but some limitations

Description of Study

Szostak and coworkers reported highly chemoselective reduction of amides ( primary, secondary, Tertiary) to alcohols using SmI2  /Amine /H2O under mild conditions.  They  reduced amide to alcohol by stirring amide (0.1mmol) with...

Good synthesis with comments for improvement

The article presents a synthetic methodology to prepare chiral N,N-disubstituted, 1,2-diamines, which can be convenient precursors to tridentate ligands.

Particularly, I used the synthetic route using cyclohexane-1,2-diamine (both racemic and enatiopure)...

Robust synthesis of difuctional fluorene derivatives

Synthesized compounds 1, 2 and 8. These reactions were successfully reproduced at large scales (up to 10 times). 

1. Synthesis of compound 1: Maintaining the reaction temperature at -78 oC is critical for achiving disubstitution. The crude materials...

Simple BINAM ligand synthesis,improvements made for scale-up

Maruoka et al. developed a new synthetic route to access 3,3’-disubstituted BINAM compounds which are nitrogen derivatives of popular axial chiral ligands BINOL and BINAP. Their multi step approach involves in partial hydrogenation of BINAM to H8-BINAM,...

Excellent reproducibility, some improvements suggested

This article describes an efficient method for solution-phase parallel synthesis of 2-quinoxalinol salen Schiff-base ligands. The novelty of this article is the synthesis of a new category of ligands using Schiff-base condensation of an aldehyde with a...

Feasible and efficient process. Easily reproducible.

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This study reports the hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of acetic acid. The authors have chosen a packed bed microreactor for the purpose. The reason for put forward by the authors for choosing micro reactor is its efficiency in operation under reduced...

Modifications to catalytic isomerization of 2M3BN to 3PN

This article reports the catalytic isomerization of the branched isomer 2-methyl-3-butenenitrile (2M3BN) to the linear isomer 3-pentenenitrile (3PN) by DPEphos nickel species.

The species involved in the isomerization reaction were investigated by...

Good reported synthesis with room for improvement

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This article describes the structure optimization and initial mechanistic understanding of a simple thiourea catalyst for the enantioselective alkylation of indoles with nitroalkenes.  The indole ring has proven to be a “privileged” structure in...

Tweaks Necessary to Improve Yield

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This paper describes the synthesis of a new hydroxypyridinone applicable for MRI technology. The basicity was measured and related to the thermodynamic stability with Gd.

Reaction of interest:

Our interest was the formation of the ring...