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Recent
Reviews on Organocatalysis
1. Lectard, S.; Hamashima, Y.; Sodeoka, M. "Recent Advances in Catalytic Enantioselective Fluorination Reactions." Adv. Synth. Catal. 2010, 352, 2708-2732.
2. Xu, W.-W.; Shi, Z.-H. "Asymmetric Synthesis with Silicon-Based Bulky Amino Organocatalysts." Adv. Synth. Catal. 2010, 352, 243-279.
Recent Highlights in Organocatalysis
1. Kwiatkowski, P.; Beeson, T.D.; Conrad, J.C.; MacMillan, D.W.C. "Enantioselective Organocatalytic alpha-Fluorination of Cyclic Ketones." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 1738-1741.
2. Coric, I.;
Muller, S.; List, B. “Kinetic Resolution of Homoaldols via Catalytic Asymmetric Transacetalization.” J. Am.
Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 17370-17373.
3. Veitch, G.E.; Jacobsen, E.N. "Tertiary Aminourea-Catalyzed Enantioselective Iodolactonization." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 7332-7335.
Useful Online Chemistry Resources
· Brooklyn College Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) Facebook page
Friend us!!
· http://www.chem.harvard.edu/groups/myers/page8/page8.html
Downloadable lecture notes from Prof. Myers (Harvard) course, “Advanced
Organic Chemistry: Synthesis of Complex Molecules”
· http://www2.lsdiv.harvard.edu/labs/evans/pdf/evans_pKa_table.pdf
A table of pKa values of a wide variety of functional groups
· http://organicdivision.org/organic_solvents.html
A table that includes the dielectric constants of common organic solvents
· http://chem.chem.rochester.edu/~nvd/index.html
Chemists blogging about chemistry…very cool!
· http://chemistrybydesign.oia.arizona.edu
An interactive website where you can quiz yourself on total synthesis. Submit a total synthesis and be added to the list of contributors.
And finally…
· http://organicdivision.org/links.html
Links to many other useful online chemistry resources
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