Current Organic Chemistry - Volume 19, Issue 8, 2015

Developments of mesoporous silica materials for use as supports to construct silica-supported chiral heterogeneous catalysts and explorations of their applications in asymmetric transfer hydrogenation represent an important branch of organic chemistry, in which understanding the supports role and controlling chiral environment are critical during the catalytic process. In this review, we briefly introduce the basic concepts wi Read More

As a major contributor to greenhouse effect, detrimental influence of CO2 has received more and more attention. Meanwhile, CO2 is also a valuable C1 building block, with several distinguished features such as low cost, nontoxicity, nonflammability, renewal, abundance. CO2 fixation is one of the most important priorities of the scientific community dedicated to reduce global warming. The last few decades have witness Read More

This review gives a complete picture of the Heck-Matsuda reaction of arenediazonium salts with olefins catalyzed by heterogeneous palladium catalysts. The nature, preparation and characterization of the different forms of heterogeneous palladium catalysts are presented, while their activity on the Heck-Matsuda reaction is critically discussed.

Size and shape selective syntheses of nanoparticles and their catalytic applications are gaining considerable interest in the recent years. Homogeneous catalysis is important due to its inherent advantages like mild reaction conditions and high selectivity. However, it suffers with serious drawback of catalyst-product separation and recycles as compared to their heterogeneous counterparts restricting their applications. T Read More

Ionic liquids are considered as one of the safe, green and environmentally benign solvents/catalysts for many organic reactions. Particularly, imidazolium based ionic liquids attracted much attention in basic as well as applied research. The major role of these ionic liquids is the replacement of the existing corrosive solvents, which are largely used in most of the organic processes and make these processes more Read More