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Frustrated Radical Pairs

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Cheng Yang

May 4, 2024

(Diethylamino)sulfur trifluoride (DAST)

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Yiannakis Lysandrou

Mar 23, 2024

Nitrogen-15 Incorporation into Heterocycles

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Eric Pettipiece

Feb 11, 2024

Oxidative decyanation

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Zhaochen Duan

Jan 14, 2024

Trifluoromethoxylation of Aromatics

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Jingyang Zhang

Nov 12, 2023

Electrophilic Fluorination with Selectfluor

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Chris Davis

Sep 30, 2023

Mukaiyama Inversion

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David Ryffel

Sep 2, 2023

Favorskii Rearrangement

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Yiannakis Lysandrou

Jul 15, 2023

Alkylation of Chiral Hydrazones

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Cheng Yang

Jun 17, 2023

Cross-Electrophile Coupling of Epoxides

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Sam Barlock

May 13, 2023

The Di-π-Methane Rearrangement

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Jonathan Maturano

Apr 15, 2023

Wacker Oxidation

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David Ryffel

Jan 22, 2023

Hayashi-Jørgensen Catalyst

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Tsukasa Shimakawa

Oct 8, 2022

Ruthenium Catalyzed Alkyne Hydration

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Peter Ryffel

Aug 13, 2022

Gold's Reagent

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Jingyang Zhang

Jul 16, 2022

Togni Reagents I and II

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Marko Nesic

Apr 30, 2022

Suàrez Radical Formation

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Matteo Martinelli

Apr 2, 2022

Martin's Sulfurane

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Annie Hooper

Feb 6, 2022

Baran's Modified Schönecker Oxidation

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Chris Davis

Dec 18, 2021

E to Z Isomerization of Polarized Olefins

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Maegen Kincanon

Sep 10, 2021

Temozolomide – Thermal Stability Case Study

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Zohaib Siddiqi

Jul 10, 2021

Ir-Catalyzed C-H Borylation of (Hetero)Arenes

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Marko Nesic

Jun 5, 2021

Ti-Mediated Alkyne-Electrophile Reductive Coupling (Micalizio)

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Jonathan Maturano

May 1, 2021

HAT Photoisomerization

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Maegen Kincanon

Apr 24, 2021

The Polonovski Reaction

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Chris Davis

Mar 26, 2021

Anodic Olefin Cylizations

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Zohaib Siddiqi

Feb 14, 2021

Transition Metal Catalyzed Vinylcyclopropane [5+2] Cycloaddition

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Roberto Serrano

Jan 31, 2021

The Bartoli Indole Synthesis

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Jonathan Maturano

Jan 17, 2021

Deaminative Coupling: Katritzky Salts

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Tanner Bingham

Dec 13, 2020

Diazidation of alkenes

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Sungjong Lee

Nov 6, 2020

Nickel-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Cross Coupling

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David Ryffel

Oct 16, 2020

Moore-Liebeskind Rearrangement

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David Ryffel

Sep 11, 2020

Super Silyl Group in Organic Synthesis

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Maegen Kincanon

Aug 21, 2020

Radical coupling of α-alkoxy radicals (Inoue)

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Sungjong Lee

Jul 31, 2020

Sharpless-Kresze Amination

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Yaroslav D. Boyko

Jul 10, 2020

Magnesium in Methanol Reductions

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Chris Davis

Jun 26, 2020

Asymmetric Lithiation

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Christopher J. Huck

Jun 5, 2020

Yamamoto's Bulky Lewis Acids

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David Ryffel

May 22, 2020

Charette Asymmetric Cyclopropanation

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Chris Davis

May 8, 2020

Fukuyama Reduction and Coupling

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Annie Hooper

Apr 24, 2020

Enantioselective Addition of Acetylides to Aldehydes (Carreira)

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Marko Nesic

Apr 3, 2020

Schwartz's Reagent

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Kayla Landers

Apr 6, 2024

Dehydrogenation (Newhouse)

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Emma Simmons

Mar 10, 2024

Sonogashira Reactions with Alkyl Halides

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Jingyang Zhang

Jan 28, 2024

Palladium Scavengers

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Sam Barlock

Jan 7, 2024

De Mayo reaction

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Zhaochen Duan

Oct 28, 2023

Ring Expansion of Exocyclic Olefins (Cyanogen Azide)

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Jan Petrovcic

Sep 15, 2023

β-Cyclodextrin

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Emma Simmons

Jul 29, 2023

Radical Ring-Opening of Epoxides

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Tsukasa Shimakawa

Jul 1, 2023

Halogen Dance

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Jingyang Zhang

Jun 3, 2023

One-pot Protection of Monosaccharide

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Chein-Yi Chen

Apr 22, 2023

Stetter Reaction

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Zhaochen Duan

Feb 5, 2023

Crabbé homologation

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Jan Petrovcic

Jan 8, 2023

Vaska's Complex

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David Ryffel

Sep 24, 2022

Parkins-Ghaffar Nitrile Hydration

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Chris Davis

Jul 30, 2022

Tiffeneau-Demjanov Rearrengement

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Matteo Martinelli

May 21, 2022

The Ruppert-Prakash Reagent

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David Ryffel

Apr 11, 2022

The Achmatowicz Rearrangement

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Jonathan Maturano

Mar 19, 2022

Burgess Reagent

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Christopher Davis

Jan 23, 2022

Barluenga-Valdes Coupling

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Peter Ryffel

Oct 9, 2021

Barton-Mukaiyama Etherification

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David Ryffel

Aug 27, 2021

Indium Tribromide and Silane for Reduction of Carbonyls

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Annie Hooper

Jul 3, 2021

Reductive Cross Electrophile Coupling (Weix)

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Roberto Serrano

May 22, 2021

Recent Advances in the Meyer-Schuster Rearrangement

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Peter Ryffel

Apr 24, 2021

Asymmetric Functionalization of Alicyclic Amines

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David Ryffel

Apr 10, 2021

Rh/CAAC-Catalyzed Dearomative Hydrogenation

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Annie Hooper

Feb 28, 2021

meta-Photocycloaddition

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Marko Nesic

Feb 7, 2021

Rd/Ru-Catalyzed Aziridination of Olefins

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Amanda Milkovits

Jan 24, 2021

Ru-Catalyzed Alkene-Alkyne Coupling (Trost)

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Marko Nesic

Dec 20, 2020

The Brook Rearrangement

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Daniel Szczepankiewicz

Nov 21, 2020

Biomimetic Oxidation of Amines to Carbonyls

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D. G. Dennis

Oct 30, 2020

LiCl Additive for Organometallics (Knochel)

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Annie Hooper

Sep 25, 2020

Ti[IV] Mediated [2+2+2] Annulations and Couplings

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D. G. Dennis

Aug 28, 2020

Danheiser Cyclopentene Annulation

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Daniel Szczepankiewicz

Aug 14, 2020

Nishiyama-Stork Radical Cyclization

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Marko Nesic

Jul 17, 2020

Kulinkovich Cyclopropanation

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Alexander S. Shved

Jun 26, 2020

Alkene Reduction by HAT (Shenvi, Herzon)

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Annie Hooper

Jun 12, 2020

Schreiber Fragmentation

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Yaroslav D. Boyko

May 29, 2020

Fier's Functionalization of Pyridines

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D. G. Dennis

May 15, 2020

Magnesium Malonate Esters

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Alexander S. Shved

May 1, 2020

Rhodium Catalyzed Allylic Oxidation (M.P Doyle)

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Roberto Serrano

Apr 17, 2020

Piancatelli Reaction

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Peter Ryffel

Feb 9, 2020

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