Current Organic Chemistry - Volume 22, Issue 18, 2018

This short review is aimed at summarizing the most recent developments in using MOFs as the catalysts in heterogeneous catalysis, such as addition and condensation reactions, coupling reactions, cycloaddition reactions, multicomponent reactions, oxidation reactions, reduction of carbon dioxide, enantioselective reactions, hydrogen evolution reactions, polymerization reactions, selective reduction of NOx, and degr Read More

Metal-organic frameworks have been largely investigated as gas adsorbent materials in the past two decades. With deep investigation of crystallography, the rational adjustments of SBUs, linker geometry, linker length, functional groups and guest molecules, the size, shape, and internal surface property of MOFs can be tuned. One of the hottest topics for the application of this type of high porous material is the g Read More

Due to the environmental and energy issues in the world, the chemical fixation of carbon dioxide into valuable products has been attracted many attentions in the recent years. However, the utilization of the highly chemical stabile carbon dioxide requires high bond cleavage energy of C=O bond. Thus, seeking and developments of the suitable catalysts for the chemical fixation of carbon dioxide is quite important. Metal-orga Read More

Photocatalysis can transform solar energy into chemical energy and is a promising technology to ameliorate the current environmental pollution and energy shortage. Due to their unique structural characteristics, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a class of micro-mesoporous hybrid materials, are recently emerging as a new type of photocatalysts and have already been applied for a variety of photocatalytic reaction Read More

This review depicts in a concise way the oxidation reactions (C-H, double bond and oxidative cleavage) in natural products. The introduction of oxygen atom in natural products is an improved strategy to achieve pharmacologically active molecules or their synthetic analogues. Natural products are considered most intriguing skeletons to be synthesized in the laboratory mainly because they are blessed with multifunctio Read More

Liverworts, widely used as traditional Chinese medicine, are a rich source of structurally diverse secondary metabolites with intriguing biological activities. Given that diterpenoids present in liverwort species possess striking scaffoldings and considering the absence of any previous review on this subject, we present an updated analysis of the diterpenes in liverworts along with their biological activities based on literature dated Read More