Baeyer–Villiger oxidation can synthesize a series of esters or lactones that have essential application value but are difficult to be synthesized by other methods. Cycloketones can be oxidized to lactones using molecular oxygen, peroxy acids, o...
Michael addition is one of the most important carbon–carbon bond formation reactions. In this study, an (R, R)-1,2-diphenylethylenediamine (DPEN)-based thiourea organocatalyst was applied to the asymmetric Michael addition of nitroalkenes and cycloke...
The physicochemical properties and reactivity of macrocycles are critically shaped by their conformations. In this work, we have identified seven conformations of the macrocyclic ketone cyclododecanone using chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave...
In this paper we describe a detailed mechanistic studies on the [FeII(PBO)2(CF3SO3)2] (1), [FeII(PBT)2(CF3SO3)2] (2), and [FeII(PBI)3](CF3SO3)2 (3)-catalyzed (PBO = 2-(2′-pyridyl)benzoxazole, PBT = 2-(2′-pyridyl)benzthiazole, PBI = 2-(2&p...
The development of non-natural enzymatic catalysis is important for multicomponent tandem organic transformations. However, the delicate acting environments of biological enzymes still present some challenges in the synthesis of spirooxindole skeleto...
A novel two-step strategy was developed for the efficient synthesis of decalin and octahydroindene from lignocellulose-derived platform compounds. In the first step, bicyclic intermediates were directly generated via a cascade dehydration/Robinson an...