Abstract The 1, 3‐dipolar cycloaddition (1, 3‐DCA) reaction, conceptualized by Rolf Huisgen
in 1960, has proven immensely useful in organic, material, and biological chemistry. The …

This Feature article presents recent representative applications of the combination of the
Activation Strain Model of reactivity and the Energy Decomposition Analysis methods to …

A bifunctional iminophosphorane (BIMP)-catalyzed, enantioselective intramolecular oxa-
Michael reaction of alcohols to tethered, low electrophilicity Michael acceptors is described …

Steric and electronic effects play a very important role in chemistry, as these effects influence
the shape and reactivity of molecules. Herein, an easy-to-perform approach to assess and …

The α‐effect is a term used to explain the dramatically enhanced reactivity of α‐nucleophiles
(R− Y− X:−) compared to their parent normal nucleophile (R− X:−) by deviating from the …

Electrochemical conversion of CO2 into CO is highly attractive since CO is highly valuable
for its wide use in organic synthesis as well as a fuel-type molecule. However, the selective …

Photochemical deracemization has emerged as one of the most straightforward approaches
to access highly enantioenriched compounds in recent years. While excited-state events …

Asynchronicity in Diels–Alder reactions plays a crucial role in determining the height of the
reaction barrier. Currently, the origin of asynchronicity is ascribed to the stronger orbital …

The homologous series of gaseous C1‐4 alkanes represents one of the most abundant
sources of short alkyl fragments. However, their application in synthetic organic chemistry is …

Herein, we dismiss a recent proposal by Civiš, Hobza, and co-workers to modify the IUPAC
definition of hydrogen bonds in order to expand the scope from protonic Y–Hδ+ to hydridic Y …