Below are the top 10 cited OBC Communications ever – take a look and let us know what your favourites are:
Richard A. van Delden, Nagatoshi Koumura, Annemarie Schoevaars, Auke Meetsma and Ben L. Feringa
DOI: 10.1039/B209378B
The small peptide-catalyzed direct asymmetric aldol reaction in water
Pawel Dziedzic, Weibiao Zou, Jonas Háfren and Armando Córdova
DOI: 10.1039/B515880J
Improving conversion and enantioselectivity in hydrogenation by combining different monodentate phosphoramidites; a new combinatorial approach in asymmetric catalysis
Diego Peña, Adriaan J. Minnaard, Jeroen A. F. Boogers, André H. M. de Vries, Johannes G. de Vries and Ben L. Feringa
DOI: 10.1039/B302097E
Accelerated asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of aromatic ketones in water
Xiaofeng Wu, Xiaoguang Li, William Hems, Frank King and Jianliang Xiao
DOI: 10.1039/B403627A
Direct asymmetric three-component organocatalytic anti-selective Mannich reactions in a purely aqueous system
Lili Cheng, Xiaoyu Wu and Yixin Lu
DOI: 10.1039/B701579H
A highly selective and sensitive fluorescent PET (photoinduced electron transfer) chemosensor for Zn(II)
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, T. Clive Lee and Raman Parkesh
DOI: 10.1039/B309569J
Enantioselective construction of quaternary carbon centre catalysed by bifunctional organocatalyst
Tian-Yu Liu, Jun Long, Bang-Jing Li, Lin Jiang, Rui Li, Yong Wu, Li-Sheng Ding and Ying-Chun Chen
DOI: 10.1039/B605871J
A chiral molecular recognition approach to the formation of optically active quaternary centres in aza-Henry reactions
Kristian Rahbek Knudsen and Karl Anker Jørgensen
DOI: 10.1039/B500618J
Direct palladium-catalyzed alkenylation, benzylation and alkylation of ethyl oxazole-4-carboxylate with alkenyl-, benzyl- and alkyl halides
Cécile Verrier, Christophe Hoarau and Francis Marsais
DOI: 10.1039/B816374J
Organocatalytic asymmetric epoxidation reactions in water–alcohol solutions
Wei Zhuang, Mauro Marigo and Karl Anker Jørgensen
DOI: 10.1039/B512542A
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Dr Christophe Hoarau comments on his article ‘Direct palladium-catalyzed alkenylation, benzylation and alkylation of ethyl oxazole-4-carboxylate with alkenyl-, benzyl- and alkyl halides’:
“The emergence of versatile synthetic methods to functionalize arenes finds a broad audience in several fields of chemistry such as total synthesis, materials and pharmaceutics. Although the Nobel Prize in chemistry has been recently awarded to cross-coupling reactions, continuous efforts are still devoted to the search of less demanding synthetic steps and less experimentally restrictive methodologies. Over the last ten years, active and enthusiastic researches in transition metal-catalyzed catalytic C-H functionalization of heterocycles have led to a major breakthrough in this field. To date, most efforts focused mainly on the development of new transition metal-catalyzed direct arylation methodologies of heteroarenes. As main innovation, the paper envisaged to extend the diversity of the substitution and reports the first examples of challenging direct C-H benzylation and alkylation in heterocyclic series that are particularly tricky to implement when using standard cross-coupling approaches.”
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