The Sonogashira reaction: a booming methodology in synthetic organic chemistry

R Chinchilla, C Nájera - Chemical reviews, 2007 - ACS Publications
The array of transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions can easily be considered
nowadays cornerstones in the field of organic synthesis. 1, 2 Among them, the palladium …

Controlled microwave heating in modern organic synthesis

CO Kappe - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Although fire is now rarely used in synthetic chemistry, it was not until Robert Bunsen
invented the burner in 1855 that the energy from this heat source could be applied to a …

Functional oligothiophenes: molecular design for multidimensional nanoarchitectures and their applications

A Mishra, CQ Ma, P Bauerle - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Functional Oligothiophenes: Molecular Design for Multidimensional Nanoarchitectures and Their
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Tuning the HOMO and LUMO energy levels of organic chromophores for dye sensitized solar cells

DP Hagberg, T Marinado, KM Karlsson… - The Journal of …, 2007 - ACS Publications
A series of organic chromophores have been synthesized in order to approach optimal
energy level composition in the TiO2− dye− iodide/triiodide system in the dye-sensitized …

Controlled microwave heating in modern organic synthesis: highlights from the 2004–2008 literature

CO Kappe, D Dallinger - Molecular diversity, 2009 - Springer
Direct and rapid heating by microwave irradiation in combination with sealed vessel
processing in many cases enables reactions to be carried out in a fraction of the time …

The versatile thiophene: an overview of recent research on thiophene‐based materials

G Barbarella, M Melucci, G Sotgiu - Advanced Materials, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
In the last few years, thiophene‐based materials, which are semiconductor and fluorescent
compounds, have become a highly interdisciplinary field of research, with diverse studies …

Microwave enhanced synthesis

S Caddick, R Fitzmaurice - Tetrahedron, 2009 - Elsevier
Microwave technology has become very important in synthesis and it is reasonable to assert
that there are now very few areas of synthetic organic chemistry that have not been shown to …

Environmentally benign synthesis of heterocyclic compounds by combined microwave-assisted heterogeneous catalytic approaches

A Daştan, A Kulkarni, B Török - Green chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent advances in the application of heterogeneous catalysis combined with microwave
irradiation in the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds are reviewed. While a detailed …

Fast, easy, clean chemistry by using water as a solvent and microwave heating: the Suzuki coupling as an illustration

NE Leadbeater - Chemical Communications, 2005 - pubs.rsc.org
Water is an excellent solvent for organic chemistry and microwave heating offers a very
efficient way of heating reaction mixtures. In this article, by focusing on the Suzuki reaction, it …

A light‐resistant organic sensitizer for solar‐cell applications

JH Yum, DP Hagberg, SJ Moon… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Finely tuned: A stable dye‐sensitized solar cell that contains a molecularly engineered
organic dye has been prepared. The efficiency of the cell remains at 90% after 1000 h of …