Highlights
Manipulating chain-walking in olefins using earth-abundant iron-based catalysts
November 04, 2020NUS chemists have discovered a way of controlling the position of carbon-carbon double bonds (C=C) in olefin isomerisation using sustainable…
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Divergent synthesis of bicyclic medium-sized ring structures
October 26, 2020NUS chemists have discovered catalyst-controlled divergent reactions to synthesise three different classes of medium-sized bicyclic compounds from the same starting…
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Sustainable iron catalysis enables controllable alkene borylation
June 09, 2020NUS chemists have unlocked a way to achieve site-selective borylation of alkenes using earth-abundant iron-based catalysts to facilitate synthesis of…
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Two (boron) is better than one
March 28, 2019NUS chemists have developed a cost effective method to synthesise geminal organodiboron compounds which are versatile chemical building blocks for…
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New ways of making molecules
April 03, 20173 Apr 2017. NUS chemists have developed a molecular transformation process for producing biologically useful compounds for pharmaceutical products. The pharmaceutical…
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Cheap works better than Noble!
February 06, 20176 Feb 2017. NUS chemists have developed new iron-catalysed reactions for producing molecules used in pharmaceutical drug production. Vinylboronate esters are synthetically…
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Advancing the science of molecular synthesis
September 08, 20168 Sep 2016. NUS chemists have developed a new method of using phosphine catalysts to produce organic compounds with high stereoselectivity….
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