Plasmachemical surface modification of porous polystyrene beads with allylamine or diaminopropane provides reactive amine functionality exclusively at accessible surface sites, allowing faster reactions than classically prepared materials.

Criteria and parameters for the evaluation of sound rural landscapes presented in the list worked out in the EU-concerted action ‘The nature and landscape production potentials of sustainable/organic types of agriculture’ (third version, November 1995) are checked in two Tuscan organic farms. The first farm is located in the landscape system of the Coastal Plains in the Province of Grosseto, so...

SYNTHESIS 2006, No. 3, pp 0369–0396xx.xx.2006 Advanced online publication: 13.01.2006 DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-926302; Art ID: E14205SS © Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York Abstract: Catalytic enantioselective construction of all-carbon quaternary stereocenters, i.e. carbon atoms bearing four different carbon substituents, poses a particular challenge in organic synthesis. This review gives a ...

We show that combining concepts generally used in covalent organic synthesis such as retrosynthetic analysis and the use of protecting groups, and applying them to the self-assembly of polymeric building blocks in multiple steps, results in a powerful strategy for the self-assembly of dynamic materials with a high level of architectural control. We present a highly efficient synthesis of bifunc...

Many of the early examples of homogeneous gold-catalysis focused on the ability of cationic gold complexes to activate π-bonds towards attack of nucleophiles. This reactivity platform, examples of which can be found in this Thematic Series, continues to provide a fruitful basis for the discovery of important new transformations. This includes the development of a tandem or domino process that c...

Photocatalysis allows innovations in organic synthesis. Among the various catalytic reactions, CH-functionalizations offer valuable possibilities for the refinement of easily available building blocks. In this respect, catalytic borylation is of interest, too. So far, most of the catalytic borylation reactions are performed under thermal conditions at comparably high temperatures. Here, we desc...

The direct addition of ammonia or primary and secondary amines to non-activated alkenes and alkynes is potentially the most efficient approach towards the synthesis of higher substituted nitrogen-containing products. It represents the most atom economic process for the formation of amines, enamines and imines, which are important bulk and fine chemicals or building blocks in organic synthesis. ...

In an "aldol addition" reaction an enol or enolate of an aldehyde or ketone reacts with a second aldehyde or ketone forming a new carbon-carbon bond which makes the aldol reaction an important reaction for organic synthesis. Originally, the aldol reaction used ethanal (see below) and therefore the product contained both an aldehyde and an alcohol functional group; thus it became known as the al...

Hydrogenation reactions are industrially important reactions that typically require unfavorably high H2 pressure and temperature for many functional groups. Herein we reveal surprisingly strong size-dependent activity of Pt nanoparticles (PtNPs) in catalyzing this reaction. Based on unambiguous spectral analyses, the size effect has been rationalized by the size-dependent d-band electron struct...

The introduction of carbon-deuterium (C-D) bonds into drug compounds by organic synthesis is a non-invasive labelling approach, which does not alter the chemical and physiological properties of the drug itself. C-deuterated drugs exhibit characteristic vibrational signatures in the C-D stretching region around 2100-2300 cm(-1), which avoids spectral interference with contributions from a comple...