Current Organocatalysis - Volume 4, Issue 1, 2017

Background: Over the past decade, catalysis by ionic liquids (ILs), has gained much attention, due to its variety in catalytic reactions that have been successfully carried out in such clean media for green chemistry, especially in synthetic and catalytic transformations. Catalysis in ILs is one of the most promising greener reactions in catalytic science. ILs, have several advantages, that they are used as alternative solvents in the pro Read More

Since 1990s, the application of organo-iodine reagents as oxidant in organic synthesis went through explosive progress. In early times, most of organo-iodine reagents were used as stoichiometric terminal or co-oxidants in oxidative reactions, which inevitably led a lower atom coefficient of utilization and environmental issues. In this regard, it is very urgent to develop varies of efficient approaches of the catalytic utilization o Read More

Background: Organic polymer supported palladium nanoparticles (NPs) are important for use as heterogeneous catalyst in various organic reactions. This works describes Pd Nps immobilized on to polystyrene-based ion-exchange resin surface for use as catalyst in the reduction of nitrobenzenes. The heterogeneous catalyst was found useful for hydrogenation of nitro group under both catalytic transfer hydrogenati Read More

Background: The oxidation of alcohols to afford carbonyl compounds is a key transformation in organic chemistry. Significant development has occurred in the recent years, in catalytic oxidation of alcohols by aerial oxygen. However, the alcohol oxidation mediated by H2O2 is quite meagre. From economic and environmental point of views, the oxidation of alcohols mediated by H2O2 is quite attractive in particular. Methods: Read More

Background: The development of novel synthetic methods for the synthesis of structurally diverse drug-like molecules with environmentally friendly solvents and catalysts is significant in the development of drug discovery research. The synthesis of fused heterocycles has attracted considerable interest because the fusion of biologically active heterocyclic systems has proved to be an attractive and useful approach for designing Read More

Background: The palladium-catalyzed couplings of alkenes with aryl halides is considered as one of the most important methods for carbon-carbon bond formation and have been utilized in the areas of natural products, high performance materials, bioactive compounds, new drugs and many industrially useful chemicals. Although the homogeneous palladium catalysts offer several advantages concerning higher selectivity and Read More