Xin Cui

TL;DR: A theoretical study of transition structures demonstrates the important role of the terminal hydroxyl group in the catalyst in the stereodiscrimination and suggests a new strategy in the design of new organic catalysts for direct asymmetric aldol reactions and related transformations because plentiful chiral resources containing multi-hydrogen bond donors, for example, peptides, might be adopted in the designs.

TL;DR: A new strategy in the design of new organic catalysts for direct asymmetric aldol reactions and related transformations is suggested as the calculations reveal that the amide N-H and the terminal hydroxyl groups form hydrogen bonds with the benzaldehyde substrate that cause high enantioselectivity.

TL;DR: A new one-pot procedure was developed to synthesize 1-aryl- and 1-vinyl-1,2,3-triazoles directly from boronic acids and alkynes, which avoided the need to isolate unstable azide intermediates.

TL;DR: In this article, a novel technique for fabrication of silver nanowires was successfully developed via a so-called solid−liquid phase arc discharge method (SLPAD), which was found that the aging time following the SLPAD method has a significant effect on the formation and growth of silver nano-wires.

TL;DR: An easily accessible water-soluble chiral o-sulfonated 1,2-diphenylethlenediamine 2 and its mono-N-tosylated derivative 3 were synthesized for the first time.