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Modular assembly of ethylene, arenes and heteroarenes
July 17, 2024Chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a modular approach to create 1,2-arylheteroaryl ethanes, a class of…
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Multifunctional chiral alkylboron compounds by enantioselective nickel catalysis
March 20, 2024National University of Singapore (NUS) chemists have conceived a strategy using chiral nickel catalysts to facilitate the carboboration of alkenes,…
Read More![Earth-abundant iron catalysis enables access to valuable dialkylated compounds](https://www.science.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/368._Koh_MJ_CHM_20240226.jpg)
Earth-abundant iron catalysis enables access to valuable dialkylated compounds
March 06, 2024National University of Singapore (NUS) chemists have solved a longstanding challenge in the synthesis of congested C(sp3)-rich molecules by developing…
Read More![Catalyst for green production of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals](https://www.science.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/354._LJ_CHM_20230913.jpg)
Catalyst for green production of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals
October 11, 2023National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers have developed a new class of catalysts – known as heterogeneous geminal atom catalysts (GACs) – that promotes greener and more sustainable manufacturing processes for fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
Read More![On-demand preparation of organosilicon reagents](https://www.science.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/340._Wu_J_CHM_20230317_a.jpg)
On-demand preparation of organosilicon reagents
April 21, 2023National University of Singapore (NUS) scientists have demonstrated that stepwise customised functionalisation of multihydrosilanes to access fully substituted silicon compounds…
Read More![Chiral drug-like building blocks by nickel-catalysed enantioselective olefin cross-coupling](https://www.science.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/329._Koh_MJ_CHM_20221020_b.jpg)
Chiral drug-like building blocks by nickel-catalysed enantioselective olefin cross-coupling
October 28, 2022NUS chemists have developed an effective method to access enantioenriched drug-like compounds through multicomponent olefin cross-coupling using chiral nickel-based catalysts….
Read More![Directing group-free alkene dicarbofunctionalization through catalyst control](https://www.science.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/300._Koh_MJ_CHM_20211220.jpg)
Directing group-free alkene dicarbofunctionalization through catalyst control
December 24, 2021NUS chemists have developed a new “catalyst control” blueprint to overcome a longstanding challenge in the site-selective dicarbofunctionalization of unactivated…
Read More![Stereoselective alkene synthesis with non-precious nickel catalysis](https://www.science.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/289._Koh_MJ_CHM_20210730.jpg)
Stereoselective alkene synthesis with non-precious nickel catalysis
August 10, 2021NUS chemists have developed a new way to access prized tri- and tetrasubstituted alkenes through a nickel-catalysed tandem process involving…
Read More![Manipulating chain-walking in olefins using earth-abundant iron-based catalysts](https://www.science.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/256._Koh_MJ_CHM_20201019.jpg)
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…
Read More![Divergent synthesis of bicyclic medium-sized ring structures](https://www.science.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/255._Zhao_Yu_20200927.jpg)
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…
Read More![Sustainable iron catalysis enables controllable alkene borylation](https://www.science.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/241._Koh_MJ_20200604-3.jpg)
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…
Read More![Two (boron) is better than one](https://www.science.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/180._Ge_Shaozhong_20180920.jpg)
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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