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August 14, 2023
Zirconocene chloride hydride (Schwartz’s reagent, Figure 1) is an organozirconium compound used in a wide range of organic reactions.Schwartz’s reagent was first prepared by Wailes and Weigold (https://...
Krystof Sigut
June 14, 2023
2,4,6-trichlorobenzoyl chloride (TCBCl), also known as Yamaguchi reagent (Figure 1) is a reagent that is employed in an esterification process devised by Masaru Yamaguchi et al. in 1979 and is also effective ...
Krystof Sigut
April 20, 2023
μ-Chloro[di(cyclopenta-2,4-dien-1-yl)]dimethyl(μ-methylene)titaniumaluminum (Tebbe reagent, Figure 1) is an organometallic reagent used to methylenation of carbonyl compounds. The main advantage of the Tebbe reagent over the ...
Krystof Sigut
March 22, 2023
Dimethyl(1-diazomethyl)phosphonate (Seyferth–Gilbert reagent, Figure 1) is a homologation reagent used to convert aryl ketones and some aldehydes into alkynes elongated by one carbon atom coming from the reagent ...
Krystof Sigut
February 16, 2023
The Corey-Bakshi-Shibata (CBS) catalyst is an organocatalyst that is used in asymmetric ketone reductions (Corey-Itsuno reduction). The structure of the CBS oxazaborolidine catalyst is shown in Figure 1.CBS oxazaborolidine can ...
Krystof Sigut
January 11, 2023
Protein synthesis is a critical biological process that is divided into two parts. A segment of DNA encoding a specific protein (a gene) is copied to a molecule of messenger ...
Krystof Sigut
January 2, 2023
Many synthetic applications use acidic catalysis, but having an extra compound in solution to serve as a catalyst, such as TsOH or CSA (para-toluenesulfonic acid or camphor-10-sulfonic acid), can ...
Krystof Sigut
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