Asymmetric ring-opening reactions have emerged as a versatile platform for converting strained cyclic systems into enantioenriched open-chain or fused molecules. By harnessing the intrinsic ring ...

A team led by chemist Frank Glorius, a professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Münster, has ...

Rotaxanes are dumbbell-shaped mechanically interlocked molecules in which one or more ring-shaped molecules are threaded ...

And Schafmeister isn’t the only chemist turning to modular methods of synthesis to explore vast regions of chemical space. It ...

Researchers from the University of Regensburg under the lead of Prof. Dr. Burkhard König, from the Institute of Organic Chemistry, are now presenting a completely different way to synthesize complex ...

Highly reactive organometallic reagents, like organolithiums (molecules with a carbon–lithium bond) are essential reagents in organic synthesis because of their applications from polymer synthesis to ...

Chemists from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Münster have developed a new light-driven reaction sequence that enables the synthesis of complex three-dimensional molecular ...

When Clay Bennett started his postdoctoral stint in 2005, he thought—“naively,” he admits—that he would spend just a couple of months preparing a few grams of an oligosaccharide before using the ...