Olefin metathesis is now a well-entrenched synthetic technique, and is a powerful method for the clean construction of innumerable classes of chemical architectures.
Research in the Grubbs group has centered on the development and application of a suite of highly active, selective, and bench stable ruthenium alkylidene complexes capable of catalyzing versatile olefin metatheses.
The P-Phos ligand family was developed by Professor Chan of Hong Kong Polytechnic University and licensed to JM CCT in 2002. P-Phos is an atropisomeric biaryl bisphosphine with the unique feature of incorporating two methoxy-substituted pyridine rings in the backbone.
While dye sensitization as the basis for color photography has been accepted for a very long time,1 attempts to use this principle for the conversion of solar light to electricity generally had resulted only in very low photocurrents, below 100
The Herzon group has developed highly active catalysts for the anti-Markovnikov hydration and reductive hydration of terminal alkynes to form aldehydes and linear alcohols, respectively.
Methacrylated collagen, hyaluronic acid, and gelatin (GelMA) hydrogels can be crosslinked with light and photoinitiators (Irgacure/LAP/Ruthenium), used as 3D cell culture scaffolds and bioinks for bioprinting.
This robust protocol for hydrosilylation of terminal acetylenes to give α-vinylsilanes using [Cp*Ru(MeCN)3]PF6, as well as a number of other catalysts for hydrosilylation, comes from the Trost group at Stanford University.
The enantioselective reduction of ketones to alcohols gives access to a pool of chiral building blocks that can be used for the synthesis of natural products. Adolfsson and co-workers reported a novel class of ligands, based on a pseudo-dipeptide, for
Prof. Dmitry Gusev and his co-workers are developing organometallic compounds of transition metals with tridentate ('pincer'-type) ligands for applications in catalytic hydrogenation of compounds with polar C=O and C=N bonds, dehydrogenative coupling and dehydrogenation reactions of alcohols.
The Frost group has a longstanding interest in aqueous phase organometallic chemistry with an emphasis on water-soluble phosphine ligands. One focus of this research group has been centered on the chemistry of the neutral, air stable, and water-soluble heterocyclic phosphine
Over the last decade, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have attracted much attention because these unconventional solar cells exhibit high performance and have the potential for low-cost production.
Alkyne metathesis has been a useful tool for C–C bond formation since the discovery of structurally well-defined metal alkylidynes by Schrock and coworkers.
Dess-Martin Periodinane is used for the mild oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes and ketones. The neutral condition of the reaction makes DMP suitable for syntheses of sensitive, functionally complex intermediates.
Andreas Pfaltz has a longstanding interest in the design of chiral ligands for asymmetric catalysis. The semicorrins developed in his group served as the prototype for an important family of nitrogen ligands, the bisoxazolines, which have found widespread use in
Tissue engineering fabricates tissues cultures from scaffolds, living cells, and biologically active molecules by simulating the microenvironment of the body to repair or replace damaged tissue.
Photovoltaics and solar cells convert solar energy into electricity by allowing photons to set electrons free thereby generating a flow of electricity.
The conductivity of organic semiconductors can be increased, and the barriers to charge-carrier injection from other materials can be reduced, by the use of highly reducing or oxidizing species to n- or p-dope, respectively, the semiconductor.
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