Review:
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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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)...
Synthesized compounds 1, 2 and 8. These reactions were successfully reproduced at large scales (up to 10 times).
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,...
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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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This paper reports a methodology for synthesis of substituted benzimidazole, benzothiazole, and benzoxazole in aqueous media. The method is novel in its approach of utilizing water as the medium, making it fit for a green chemistry protocol. The...
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Synthesis of various silacycles has been reported.
The Reaction of Interest:
Synthesis of t-BuSiHCl2 (18.5%, 50 mmol) via reaction of HSiCl3 (2 equiv) with t-BuLi.
Practical Observations:
Solid state phosphors in the form of nanosized particles attract a lot of attention. This interest is of both fundamental and practical character. Ultrafine and homogeneous fluorescence particles can be used as biological labels and in the various lightning...
Ruthenium oxide is one of the most active electrocatalytic material for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and chlorine evolution reaction (CER). The attempts of improve its performance or to decrease the cost of the industrial electrodes resulted in many...
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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...
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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...