This month sees the following articles in Chemical Science that are in the top ten most accessed:-
Synergistic catalysis: A powerful synthetic strategy for new reaction development
Anna E. Allen and David W. C. MacMillan
Chem. Sci., 2012, 3, 633-658, DOI: 10.1039/C2SC00907B
Lewis base-promoted carbon-carbon sp3-sp3 coupling reactions of a-silyl silylethers
Jonathan A. Brekan, Dmitri Chernyak, Kolby L. White and Karl A. Scheidt
Chem. Sci., 2012, 3, 1205-1210, DOI: 10.1039/C2SC00581F
Asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction of ß,ß-disubstituted enals and chromone-fused dienes: construction of collections with high molecular complexity and skeletal diversity
Jun-Long Li, Si-Li Zhou, Peng-Qiao Chen, Lin Dong, Tian-Yu Liu and Ying-Chun Chen
Chem. Sci., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2SC20096A
Molecular scaffolds with remote directing groups for selective palladium-catalyzed C-H bond functionalizations
Erin E. Stache, Curtis A. Seizert and Eric M. Ferreira
Chem. Sci., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2SC20176C
Metal-free, aerobic ketooxygenation of alkenes using hydroxamic acids
Valerie A. Schmidt and Erik J. Alexanian
Chem. Sci., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2SC01042A
Direct Oxidative Arylation of Secondary Alcohols with Arylsilanes via Rhodium-Catalyzed C-C Bond Cleavage
Kang Chen, Hu Li, Yang Li, Xi-Sha Zhang, Zhi-Quan Lei and Zhang-Jie Shi
Chem. Sci., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2SC00923D
The intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction of tryptamine-derived Zincke aldehydes is a stepwise process
Hung V. Pham, David B. C. Martin, Christopher D. Vanderwal and K. N. Houk
Chem. Sci., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2SC01072K
Mechanistic Understanding on Rh-Catalyzed Aryl C-H Addition to N-Sulfonylaldimines
Yang Li, Xi-Sha Zhang, Hu Li, Wen-Hua Wang, Kang Chen, Bi-Jie Li and Zhang-Jie Shi
Chem. Sci., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2SC01081J
Ni(0) or Cu(0) catalyzed cleavage of the unactivated C-Cl bond of 2-chloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane (HCFC-133a) via a single electron transfer (SET) process
Tang Xiao-Jun and Chen Qing-Yun
Chem. Sci., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2SC01083F
Asymmetric C(sp3)-H/C(Ar) coupling reactions. Highly enantio-enriched indolines via regiodivergent reaction of a racemic mixture
Dmitry Katayev, Masafumi Nakanishi, Thomas Bürgi and E. Peter Kündig
Chem. Sci., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2SC20111A
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