From life-saving drugs and synthetic polymers to diverse advanced materials, the products containing organic compounds seem endless, thanks in part to regioselectivity, a feature in chemical reactions ...

Chiral chloro-indeno pybox has served as a new ligand for the Yb(OTf) 3-catalyzed asymmetric Friedel–Crafts alkylation reaction of indoles with nitroalkenes. The tunable nature of pybox ligands ...

The ubiquity of C–H bonds in organic molecules makes direct C–H functionalization an atom- and step-efficient strategy in synthetic chemistry. However, direct C–H alkylation, particularly of ...

A gloved hand places a glass vial into a sample holder grid illuminated with blue, green, and red lights. Blue light activates a radical ion pair that can forge new chemical bonds without toxic ...