All Organic matter articles – Page 5
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Beyond buckets and batches
Embracing flow chemistry means leaving behind some faithful friends
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(‒)-Pavidolide B
An innovative approach to making five-membered carbon rings makes for a strikingly short synthesis
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Forcing fluorines into shape
Sometimes unnatural molecules can be more challenging to synthesise than natural metabolites
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(+)-Pleuromutilin
Total synthesis is sometimes the only way to explore the chemical space around a natural product
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Nickel catalyst couples alcohols and carbon dioxide
Flexibility and low cost make nickel a firm favourite in catalysis
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Crystal clear
The dark craft of crystallisation is an essential skill when working on kilogram scale
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(+)-Zincophorin methyl ester
New and old reactions combine for an elegant and concise synthesis
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In search of solvation
Process chemistry opens up a whole new world when it comes to solvent choice
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Functionalising pyridines with phosphonium salts
Newly-independent research groups often bring new perspectives to synthesis
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Still boiling after all these years
If you’ve got the facilities, distillation can be a powerful plant technique
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6-epi-Ophiobolin N
When it comes to cascade reactions, radicals are king of the ring-formers
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Lighting up crowded corners
Combining photocatalysis with organocatalysis opens doors to chiral quaternary centres
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Crossing the boundaries
Getting reagents across interfaces requires help from phase-transfer catalysts – but transferring information is harder