aldol reaction

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aldol reaction - a reaction of aldehydes resulting in an aldol

chemical reaction, reaction - (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others; "there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water"

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The paradigm proposed herein for the exploitation of vinyl cations will also open up new vistas in the centuries-old aldol reaction and in amination chemistry.

VINCAT: A Unified Approach to Redox-Neutral C-C Couplings: Exploiting Vinyl Cation Rearrangements

The aldol reaction is one of the mostimportant carbon-carbon bond forming reactions in modern organic synthesis as a key step in natural product synthesis and for the rapid access to polyoxygenated compounds.

Investigation of Proline Amides and Pyridinium Salts as Catalyst for Direct Aldol Reactions in Water

The synthesis of 1 started from an anti-selective asymmetric aldol reaction (37) between silyl enol ether 2 and aldehyde 3 to set the two stereocenters at C4 and C5 of 4 (Fig.

Chemical construction and structural permutation of neurotoxic natural product, antillatoxin: importance of the three-dimensional structure of the bulky side chain

Extending the coverage of its predecessor, Modern Aldo Reactions, this reference focuses on the latest developments and offers new tools for use of the aldol reaction in the development of natural products and pharmaceuticals.

Modern methods in stereoselective aldol reactions

Moreover, PEG is inexpensive, easy to handle, thermally stable, non-toxic, and recyclable in various organic transformations [21], such as for example, Heck reaction [22], catalytic hydrogenations [23], asymmetric dihydroxylation reaction [24], Baylis-Hillman reaction [25], Biginelli reaction [26], Suzuki-Miyaura reaction, Stille cross-coupling reaction [27], Wacker reaction [28] and asymmetric aldol reaction [29].

PEG-400 as an efficient and recyclable reaction medium for the synthesis of polyhydroquinolines via Hantzsch reaction

Key steps included a diisopinocampheylchloroborane (DPC)-catalysed aldol reaction that was shown to be highly sensitive to traces of moisture.

Boron from lab to launch: Christopher D. Hewitt and Karl Matos from BASF Corporation, USA, review recent developments in the use of borane reagents for commercial-scale API synthesis, which were highlighted when more than 150 scientists met at the 5th BASF Boron Conference in March 2009 in Hyderabad, India

A recent communication from the Journal of Organic Chemistry describing an asymmetric, biologically-catalyzed aldol reaction was used as the basis for this study.

Chemistry section. (Collegiate Division 2002)

Triacetone alcohol and semiphorone undergo retrograde aldol reaction catalyzed by carbonaceous residues adhering to the surface of the injector port of the gas chromatograph during GC-MS analysis.