Current Organic Chemistry - Volume 18, Issue 3, 2014

Anthrax is an infectious disease associated with a high death rate in the absence of treatment. To be effective, antibiotics must be administered early after infection and during a prolonged period, therefore, designing vaccines is a valuable alternative. With the currently marketed anthrax vaccines being considered less than optimal, the development of novel formulations is strongly encouraged by health and government a Read More

The review summarizes the use of metal nanoparticles as catalysts in cross-coupling reactions. Nanoparticle-sized catalysts are used in a variety of reactions, however, this chapter will focus on their use in the following cross-coupling reactions: Suzuki-Miyaura, Mizoroki-Heck, Sonogashira, Ullmann and Stille. Catalysts in nanoparticle size are often supported on other materials, referred to as catalyst supports. The various ca Read More

Methodology of the synthesis of higher carbon sugars containing > 10 carbon atoms in the chain is reviewed. The emphasis is put on such derivatives which can be (or are) easily converted into higher alditols.

Iodocyclization reactions are acquiring an increasing importance in organic synthesis, in view of the possibility to obtain iodine- containing heterocycles starting from readily available acyclic substrates under mild reaction conditions. Various aspects of these iodocyclization reactions have been recently reviewed, including the application of iodocyclization processes to the synthesis of natural products, heterocyclic der Read More

Heterocyclic 1,2,4-triazole derivatives possess unusually spacious potentiality as medicinal agents, agricultural chemicals, functional materials, ionic liquids, supramolecular catalysts as well as artificial enzymes and receptors for supramolecular recognition and biomimetic catalysis, and their various researches and developments have been being a quite rapidly developing and active highlight topic with an infinite space. Nume Read More

In this review, a group of two-dimensional (2D) self-assembled supramolecular chemical reactions observed by our laboratory are discussed. Our focuses mainly involve: 1) Surface supramolecular chemical reactions tuned by photo-stimulation; 2) Regulation of surface-confined nanostructure with metal-ligand coordination; 3) Construction of 2D supramolecular nanostructures through Schiff-base reaction observed by STM. It is Read More