Nanochitin: chemistry, structure, assembly, and applications

L Bai, L Liu, M Esquivel, BL Tardy, S Huan… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Chitin, a fascinating biopolymer found in living organisms, fulfills current demands of
availability, sustainability, biocompatibility, biodegradability, functionality, and renewability …

Nitrogen-Centered Radicals in Functionalization of sp2 Systems: Generation, Reactivity, and Applications in Synthesis

C Pratley, S Fenner, JA Murphy - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The chemistry of nitrogen-centered radicals (NCRs) has plentiful applications in organic
synthesis, and they continue to expand as our understanding of these reactive species …

Analysis of past and present synthetic methodologies on medicinal chemistry: where have all the new reactions gone? Miniperspective

DG Brown, J Bostrom - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
An analysis of chemical reactions used in current medicinal chemistry (2014), three decades
ago (1984), and in natural product total synthesis has been conducted. The analysis …

Exploiting the Marcus inverted region for first-row transition metal–based photoredox catalysis

AY Chan, A Ghosh, JT Yarranton, J Twilton, J **… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Second-and third-row transition metal complexes are widely employed in photocatalysis,
whereas earth-abundant first-row transition metals have found only limited use because of …

Mechanism of CN bonds formation in electrocatalytic urea production revealed by ab initio molecular dynamics simulation

X Liu, Y Jiao, Y Zheng, M Jaroniec, SZ Qiao - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Electrosynthesis of urea from CO2 and NOX provides an exceptional opportunity for human
society, given the increasingly available renewable energy. Urea electrosynthesis is …

Applications of acceptorless dehydrogenation and related transformations in chemical synthesis

C Gunanathan, D Milstein - Science, 2013 - science.org
Background Acceptorless dehydrogenation (AD) reactions can result not only in simple
removal of hydrogen gas from various substrates but also, importantly, in surprisingly …

Nonclassical routes for amide bond formation

RM De Figueiredo, JS Suppo, JM Campagne - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The present review offers an overview of nonclassical (eg, with no pre-or in situ activation of
a carboxylic acid partner) approaches for the construction of amide bonds. The review aims …

Native chemical ligation and extended methods: mechanisms, catalysis, scope, and limitations

V Agouridas, O El Mahdi, V Diemer, M Cargoet… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The native chemical ligation reaction (NCL) involves reacting a C-terminal peptide thioester
with an N-terminal cysteinyl peptide to produce a native peptide bond between the two …

Key Green Chemistry research areas from a pharmaceutical manufacturers' perspective revisited

MC Bryan, PJ Dunn, D Entwistle, F Gallou… - Green …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In 2007 the members of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute® Pharmaceutical Roundtable
assembled a list of key green chemistry research areas to both identify transformations that …

Amide bond bioisosteres: Strategies, synthesis, and successes

S Kumari, AV Carmona, AK Tiwari… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The amide functional group plays a key role in the composition of biomolecules, including
many clinically approved drugs. Bioisosterism is widely employed in the rational …