Armando Córdova

TL;DR: This work proposes and demonstrates a novel alternative for the evolution of homochirality that is not based on autocatalysis and forges a direct relationship between the chirality of sugars and amino acids.

TL;DR: A silver‐triggered heterogeneous Pd‐catalyzed oxidative carbonylation has been developed that exhibits high efficiency and good recyclability, and was utilized for the one‐pot construction of polycyclic compounds with multiple chiral centers.

TL;DR: In this article, inorganic ammonium ions, NH4+, and carbonate ions, CO32−, are reported for the first time as catalysts for organic reactions in atmospheric aerosols and other natural environments at the Earth's surface.

TL;DR: The heterogeneous Pd(0)-CPG nanoparticle catalysts were efficient for both the sequential aerobic oxidation and dynamic kinetic asymmetric Michael–carbocyclization transformations, resulting in oxidation of a variety of allylic alcohols to enals and formation of cyclopentenes containing an all-carbon quaternary stereocenter in good to high yields.

TL;DR: In this article, a general strategy for the total asymmetric synthesis of valuable tropane alkaloids by catalytic stereoselective transformations is disclosed, and the power of this approach is exemplified by the conci...