Among the challenges facing asymmetric synthesis the selective construction of quaternary stereogenic centres, particularly those bearing all-carbon substituents, stands out. The aldol reaction has ...

The Jingjing Wu group at the National Key Laboratory of Synergistic Materials Creation/Frontier Science Center for Transformative Molecules (FSCTM) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in collaboration ...

Bifunctional catalysis employs catalysts that possess two distinct active sites—often an acid and a base—that act in concert to activate different substrates within a single reaction. In aldol ...

Researchers synthesized three novel clusters that can each accelerate chemical reactions needed in organic chemistry to produce strong carbon-carbon bonds. The clusters comprise aluminum and rare ...