Category Archives: Small Molecule Synthesis

Efforts Toward the Synthesis of Ecteinascidin 597 by Pummerer Cyclization

Prof. David Procter’s group at the University of Manchester have used fluorous thiols in the syntheses of a number of different molecular classes.  In each of these cases the goal of the research was to develop methods by which to … Continue reading

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Fluorous Chemistry in Microfluidics

A just published critical review in Chem. Soc. Rev. from Noël and Buchwald is entitled “Cross-coupling in flow” and highlights metal catalyzed cross coupling reactions in microfluidics.  As the authors note, most cross-coupling reactions have been run primarily in batch … Continue reading

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Fluorous Germyl-Stille Coupling

Researchers at Imperial College led by Prof. Alan Spivey have over the last several years been developing methodology using fluorous tagged germanes in metal catalyzed coupling reactions.  They’ve found that these germanium compounds can be used in transformations analogous to … Continue reading

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Combinatorial Libraries: Where to?

The earliest envisioned applications of any technology are not always the ones that end up being the most powerful or popular application.  A good example would be RFID tags, the predecessor of which developed in 1945 in the USSR as … Continue reading

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Fluorous Organocatalyzed Michael Addition

The number of fluorous organocatalysts and the number of reactions they catalyze is getting larger all the time.  The marriage of fluorous methods with organocatalysis is particularly attractive since organocatalysts can be costly and may require higher loading compared to … Continue reading

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