Using asymmetric catalysis to simultaneously form carbon–carbon bonds and generate single isomer products is strategically important. Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling is widely used in the academic and ...

The Pd-catalysed Stille cross-coupling reaction between stannanes and organic halides (RX) was discovered during 1976–1978 (refs 1, 2, 3), and is currently the second most widely used cross-coupling ...

Reactions that let chemists selectively make one enantiomer of a molecule over another fall into a field of modern organic chemistry called asymmetric catalysis. These reactions are crucial for ...

DIRECT CROSS-COUPLING of aryl halides with alkyl halides to form substituted aryl compounds—one of the most indispensable types of reactions in organic synthesis—has just gotten easier thanks to a new ...

Chemists from ETH Zurich have found a way to produce poorly soluble proteins by caging a uniquely reactive boron compound.