Current Organic Chemistry - Volume 15, Issue 21, 2011

Conventional organic chemistry treated low molecular weight compounds. Nano-organic chemistry is a new organic chemistry that treats nanoscale reactions and nano-sized compounds with the molecular weight of more than several thousands. Nano-organic chemistry is a rapidly developing area of research because of its importance in syntheses and functionalization of organic, inorganic and hybrid organic/inorg Read More

Ferrocene, an organometallic chemical compound consisting of two cyclopentadienyl rings bound on opposite sides of a central iron atom, has been widely used to synthesize carbon nanomaterials with different shapes. It can not only serve as a catalyst but also act as a carbon or iron source because it contains both a transition metal and two hydrocarbon fragments. In this review, we summarize the information gener Read More

In recent years, “click” chemistry, especially the Cu(I)-catalyzed azide/alkyne 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition “click” reaction, has emerged as an attractive and promising synthesis approach due to its prominent virtues such as high specificity, quantitative yields, compatibility with various solvents (including water), and mild reaction conditions. Since there are already many reviews concerning click chemistry itself or its ap Read More

In current organic synthesis, choice of appropriate catalysts is becoming more and more important. Among these catalysts, noble metal nanoparticles catalyst is one of the most important catalysts which has been successfully applied in hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, selective oxidation, alkylation and other reactions. At the same time, recent advances in nanotechnology allow the researchers to prepare noble Read More

Solvent evaporation induced cooling of a solution surface will result in condensation of water vapor, which is known as breath figure. The condensed water droplets arrange normally into hexagonal packing to template the solution surface. After complete evaporation of solvent and water, hexagonally ordered porous array (breath figure array, BFA) can be left on the solute matrix by the imprints of the water droplets Read More

In current nanotechnology, bottom-up approaches where supramolecular chemistry plays a crucial role are gradually gaining in importance relative to the top-down approaches. A key process of the bottom-up approaches is self-assembly of component materials where supramolecular chemistry plays a crucial role. Well-designed structures formed through self-assembly particularly make excellent prototypes for functioning man- Read More

The general concepts, features and applications of ambient ionization mass spectrometry for studying the heterogeneous/homogeneous ion-molecule reactions are reviewed. Important ambient ionization mass spectrometric methods and their applications in organic chemistry are summarized, focusing on SESI (secondary electrospray ionization), DESI (desorption electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry), ESSI (el Read More