Recent advances in the chemistry and applications of N-heterocyclic carbenes

P Bellotti, M Koy, MN Hopkinson, F Glorius - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
N-Heterocyclic carbenes, despite being isolated and characterized three decades ago, still
capture scientists' interest as versatile, modular and strongly coordinating moieties. In the …

Photons or electrons? A critical comparison of electrochemistry and photoredox catalysis for organic synthesis

NES Tay, D Lehnherr, T Rovis - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Redox processes are at the heart of synthetic methods that rely on either electrochemistry or
photoredox catalysis, but how do electrochemistry and photoredox catalysis compare? Both …

Recent Advances in Alkenyl sp2 C–H and C–F Bond Functionalizations: Scope, Mechanism, and Applications

MZ Lu, J Goh, M Maraswami, Z Jia, JS Tian… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Alkenes and their derivatives are featured widely in a variety of natural products,
pharmaceuticals, and advanced materials. Significant efforts have been made toward the …

Linear block copolymer synthesis

H Dau, GR Jones, E Tsogtgerel, D Nguyen… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Block copolymers form the basis of the most ubiquitous materials such as thermoplastic
elastomers, bridge interphases in polymer blends, and are fundamental for the development …

Elastic vitrimers: Beyond thermoplastic and thermoset elastomers

J Luo, Z Demchuk, X Zhao, T Saito, M Tian, AP Sokolov… - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
Thermoset elastomers are widely used in industry and frontier research due to their
advantage of mechanical robustness, high thermal/chemical resistance, and good …

Mussel-inspired chemistry: a promising strategy for natural polysaccharides in biomedical applications

F Liu, X Liu, F Chen, Q Fu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Polysaccharides are a kind of natural biopolymers and have been widely applied in various
fields, especially biomedical applications, due to their fascinating properties, such as …

Recent progress on donor and donor–donor carbenes

D Zhu, L Chen, H Fan, Q Yao, S Zhu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Donor and donor–donor carbenes are two important kinds of carbenes, which have
experienced tremendous growth in the past two decades. This review provides a …

Expanding the synthetic toolbox through metal–enzyme cascade reactions

S González-Granda, J Albarrán-Velo… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The combination of metal-, photo-, enzyme-, and/or organocatalysis provides multiple
synthetic solutions, especially when the creation of chiral centers is involved. Historically …

Beyond classical sulfone chemistry: metal-and photocatalytic approaches for C–S bond functionalization of sulfones

J Corpas, SH Kim-Lee, P Mauleón… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The exceptional versatility of sulfones has been extensively exploited in organic synthesis
across several decades. Since the first demonstration in 2005 that sulfones can participate …

Polyolefin thermoplastic elastomers from polymerization catalysis: Advantages, pitfalls and future challenges

G Zanchin, G Leone - Progress in Polymer Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Polyolefins have dominated materials technology over the last century and remain among
the most used materials, despite environmental problems have emerged and their public …