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The international home of synthetic, physical and biomolecular organic chemistry.




Issue 9 of OBC


18 April 2008

Featured in this issue

In this issue's cover article, an Emerging Area, Gareth Rowlands (Massey University, New Zealand) discusses the development of general routes to enantiomerically pure [2.2]paracyclophane derivatives.

 

A number of methodologies allow for the enantioselective functionalisation of [2.2]paracyclophane to give valuable planar chiral molecules.

 

In the second Emerging Area, Douglas Stephan (University of Toronto, Canada) describes the concept of frustrated Lewis pairs, where sterically hindered Lewis donors and acceptors are combined.

 

Steric frustration leaves the Lewis acidity and basicity unquenched

 

References

Gareth J. Rowlands, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2008, DOI:  10.1039/b800698a

Douglas W. Stephan, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2008, DOI:  10.1039/b802575b 

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Issue 9

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