Dicarboxylic acids and their derivatives (esters and anhydrides) have been used as acylating agents in lipase-catalyzed reactions in organic solvents. The synthetic outcomes have been dimeric or hybrid derivatives of bioactive natural compounds as well as functionalized polyesters.

We describe the efficient and highly enantioselective kinetic resolution of trans-cycloalkane-1,2-diols utilizing an enantioselective Steglich reaction with a variety of carboxylic acids that form the corresponding anhydrides in situ.

Amino, bromo, nitro, and naphthalene functionalized UiO-66 metal-organic frameworks have been synthesized through reticular chemistry. UiO-66-NH(2) is shown to be suitable for postsynthetic modification with a variety of anhydrides to generate new, functionalized frameworks.

The first ultrasound-promoted multicomponent synthesis of pyridazinones and phthalazinones from arenes, cyclic anhydrides and ArNHNH(2) in the presence of an efficient recyclable catalyst, [bmim]Br/AlCl(3), in high yield and short reaction time is reported.

For the first time, palladium-catalyzed carbonylative telomerization enables one-step synthesis of mixed carboxylic anhydrides directly from butadiene. These are versatile intermediates and were used to form amides.

Poly(ester-carbonate) copolymers were synthesized through triethylborane (TEB)-activated, one-pot copolymerization of epoxides with anhydrides (AH) and CO₂. Depending upon the feeding ratio AH to epoxides, poly(ester-carbonate) random tapered ester structures could be derived due much higher reactivity toward growing oxanions compared Anhydrides like succinic anhydride (SA) phthalic (PA) when t...