Surfactants, due to their special amphiphilic structure, can form aggregation systems through self-assembly and serve as "microreactors" or templates to prepare new nanomaterials with various structural morphologies. At the same time, surfactants can effectively reduce surface energy and have broad application prospects in the stable existence of nanoparticles. STREM's high-purity...

      N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC)–Gold Complexes are not only widely used in catalytic transformations in organic chemistry but also find applications in the synthesis of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and next-generation optoelectronic materials, making them powerful tools in modern synthesis. However, the synthesis of such complexes often involves toxic...

      As the third category of chiral catalysts after enzymes and metals, organocatalysts offer advantages such as easy synthesis, low cost, mild reaction conditions, and no metal residue, making them an important pathway to achieving “perfect reaction chemistry.”       Chiral thioureas, a novel class of hydrogen-bond...

The Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction (also known simply as the Arbuzov reaction) refers to the transformation where trivalent phosphite esters react with alkyl halides to produce pentavalent alkyl phosphonates. The reaction was first discovered by August Michaelis in 1898 and later thoroughly investigated by Aleksandr Arbuzov. The Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction is one of...

Barton Decarboxylation refers to a radical reaction in which a carboxylic acid is first converted into a thiohydroxamate ester (also known as a Barton ester), and then thermally decomposed in the presence of a radical initiator and a suitable hydrogen donor to yield the decarboxylated product. The reaction is named...

The Favorskii reaction refers to the nucleophilic addition of terminal alkynes to carbonyl compounds in the presence of a basic medium (e.g., anhydrous potassium hydroxide or sodium amide), yielding propargylic alcohols. The reaction is named after Russian chemist Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii, who first reported it. The reaction mechanism involves deprotonation...