Based on a symmetry-guided synthesis strategy, the research group of Professor Yefeng Tang at Tsinghua University recently achieved the efficient construction of the tricyclic core skeleton of ...

A Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) research team led by Prof. SUN Jianwei and Prof. LIN Zhenyang from the Department of Chemistry has developed a catalytic enantioselective type ...

Complex polycylic structures are found in nearly every biosynthetic class of natural products. In particular, an amazing range of rigid densely functionalized polycylic compounds are formed from ...

Cycloadditions that involve more than six π electrons are termed higher-order cycloadditions and are an excellent tool for solving complex synthetic challenges, as they provide direct access to ...

Development of a new APEX reaction means that large numbers of nanographenes can be easily synthesized using a commercially available hydrocarbon as a template. A group of researchers at Nagoya ...

Macrolactones—large ring lactones—are core components of many natural products and pharmaceutical agents. Traditional ...

This is 9,10,11,20,21,22-hexaphenyltetrabenzo[a,c,l,n]pentacene, the most highly twisted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ever prepared. Its X-ray structure shows an end-to-end twist of 144°. Unlike ...

For the first time, MIT chemists have synthesized a fungal compound known as verticillin A, which was discovered more than 50 ...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are an important class of fused-ring natural compounds that are under fire for being toxic. Evidence suggests PAHs, which occur naturally in oil (including edible oils ...