Current Organic Chemistry - Volume 20, Issue 12, 2016

Transforming renewable raw materials into biofuels has attracted growing attention due to economic and environmental reasons. The inevitable depletion of fossil fuels, and the increasing generation of greenhouse gas have motivated the development of environmentally friendly processes for biodiesel production. The conversion of acid non-edible vegetal oils using recyclable catalysts has been the goal pursued by research Read More

Owning to its large surface area and atomic thickness, graphene possesses exceptional mechanical, optical and electrical properties. Up to now, graphene and its composites/ hybrids have been widely used in various scientific fields such as drug carriers, electronics, transistors, sensors, conductive materials and so on. Unfortunately, the prospects of more extensive applications of graphene have been impeded by its poo Read More

Pillar[n]arenes, a new star of macrocyclic hosts since it was firstly reported in 2008 by Nakamoto group, have obtained a lot of attention due to their unique and intriguing characteristics and properties. The study of synthetic approaches to design and construct pillar[n]arenes is a significant aspect in pillar[n]arene chemistry. Up to now, routes to prepare pillar[n]arenes or functioned pillar[n]arene derivatives are very mature Read More

2-Hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone is a synthetically versatile substrate and can be used for the synthesis of a large array of heterocyclic compounds. Advances in the exploitation of 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone for organic synthesis are reported in this review.

Disulfides are used in many organic procedures and play a very important role as vulcanizing agents and linkages for controlled drug delivery.As far as we know, no triflate-catalysed coupling of thiols has yet been reported. Metal triflates are classified as very selective catalysts. In view of previous reports on the successful use of Lewis acids in many organic procedures, the aim of this work was to check the activity of thos Read More

Furo(thieno)[3,2-d]pyrimidin-8-ones 1a,b and furo(thieno)[3,2-d]pyrimidine-8-thiones 7a,b have been synthesized and their alkylation with a series of alkyl halides (MeI, EtI, PrI, i-PrI, BuI and BnCl) was carried out to gain information on their lactam-lactim or thiolactam-thiolactim tautomerism and then on their different nucleophilicity. The structure of the obtained compounds has been unambiguously confirmed by using a wide Read More