Jack L.-Y. Chen

TL;DR: It is found that addition of nBuLi to the pinacol boronic ester followed by trapping of the alkoxide with TFAA leads to an intermediate allyl borinic ester which undergoes allylboration with very high E selectivity.

TL;DR: 3,3-Disubstituted allylic boronic esters can be converted into the corresponding borinic esters by the sequential addition of nBuLi and TFAA, which allows the highly selective allylation of both ketones and ketimines, and facile access to adjacent quaternary stereocenters with full stereocontrol.

TL;DR: This review focuses on synthetic molecular nanostructures which self-assemble under dissipative conditions and the chemical function associated with the transient assemblies is operational as long as chemical fuel is present.

TL;DR: Asymmetric cross-coupling reactions in which stereo- chemistry-bearing CC bonds are created are still in their infancy, and advances in this area have occurred in the past few years, in the realm of enantioselective or enantiospecific cross- couplings of chiral electrophiles.

TL;DR: This review describes the use of monolayer protected gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) for chemosensing applications and shows that these systems are very well-equipped for metal ion sensing as the complexation of the metal ions can affect the properties of the system in many ways leading to detectable output signals even at very low analyte concentrations.