Mini-Reviews in Organic Chemistry - Volume 18, Issue 5, 2021

Hypervalent iodine reagents are a class of non-metallic oxidants that have been widely used in the construction of several sorts of bond formations. This surging interest in hypervalent iodine reagents is essentially due to their very useful oxidizing properties, combined with their benign environmental character and commercial availability from the past few decades ago. Furthermore, these hypervalent iodine reagents h Read More

This review discusses an important synthetic tool proposed by K.B. Sharpless in 1980, known as the Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation of allylic alcohols, and examines its use in the total synthesis of representative exponents of biologically active natural products. Focus is given to the synthesis of simple to highly complex secondary metabolites, including lactones, amino acids, diterpenes, and macrolides. The Sharpless Read More

Karl Elbs published his discovery of the reaction between phenols and peroxydisulfate in 1893. It was not until fifty years later that Boyland extended the reaction to aromatic amines. There have been more than 300 citations of these reactions which, although usually giving only modest yields, are nevertheless useful for their simplicity.

The removal of sulfur compounds from fuel oil has been a major concern of the fuel industry. Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) is the most common desulfurization method currently used in oil refineries. However, HDS requires high temperature and high pressure conditions, consumption of hydrogen, and the removal effect of thiophene sulfides is not ideal. In view of defects of HDS, nonhydrodesulfurization technologies hav Read More

With the development of industrialization, global environmental pollution and energy crisis are becoming increasingly serious. Organic pollutants pose a serious health threat to human beings and other organisms. The removal of organic pollutants in the environment has become a global challenge. The photocatalytic technology has been widely used in the degradation of organic pollutants with its characteristics of simple Read More