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    Cu-catalyzed enantioselective allylic alkylation with organolithium reagents

    Cu-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation (AAA) is used in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and natural products. This protocol uses organolithium reagents in the Cu-catalyzed AAA of allylic substrates with T...

    Valentín Hornillos, Sureshbabu Guduguntla, Martín Fañanás-Mastral in Nature Protocols (2017)

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    Catalytic asymmetric carbon–carbon bond formation via allylic alkylations with organolithium compounds

    Carbon–carbon bond formation is the basis for the biogenesis of nature's essential molecules. Consequently, it lies at the heart of the chemical sciences. Chiral catalysts have been developed for asymmetric C–...

    Manuel Pérez, Martín Fañanás-Mastral, Pieter H. Bos, Alena Rudolph in Nature Chemistry (2011)

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    Reversing the direction in a light-driven rotary molecular motor

    Biological rotary motors can alter their mechanical function by changing the direction of rotary motion. Achieving a similar reversal of direction of rotation in artificial molecular motors presents a fundamen...

    Nopporn Ruangsupapichat, Michael M. Pollard, Syuzanna R. Harutyunyan in Nature Chemistry (2011)