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Furane

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Lewis acid catalyzed [4+2] annulation of bicyclobutanes with dienol ethers for the synthesis of bicyclo[4.1.1]octanes

Jérôme Waser, Stefano Nicolai

Bicyclic carbocycles containing a high fraction of Csp3 have become highly attractive synthetic targets because of the multiple applications they have found in medicinal chemistry. The formal cycloaddition of bicyclobutanes (BCBs) with two- or three-atom p ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Synthesis and Applications of Ynimines and Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Artatrovirenol A

Rémi Hugo Lavernhe

The first chapter of this thesis describe the development of a general synthesis of ynimines, an under-exploited motif in organic chemistry. In the presence of an inexpensive copper catalyst and 2,2'-biquinoline, reaction of easily accessible O-acyloximes ...

EPFL2023

Double-bond delocalization in non-alternant hydrocarbons induces inverted singlet-triplet gaps

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Jacob Terence Blaskovits, Marc Hamilton Folkmann Garner

Molecules where the first excited singlet state is lower in energy than the first excited triplet state have the potential to revolutionize OLEDs. This inverted singlet-triplet gap violates Hund's rule and currently there are only a few molecules which are ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Double-bond delocalization in non-alternant hydrocarbons induces inverted singlet-triplet gaps

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Jacob Terence Blaskovits, Marc Hamilton Folkmann Garner

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Palladium Catalysed Intramolecular Carbo-oxygenation of Propargylic Amines to Access 1,2-Amino Alcohols and alpha-Amino Ketones via in situ Tether Formation

Phillip Gulliver Dominic Greenwood

a-Amino ketones and 1,2-amino alcohols are important structural motifs in organic chemistry, that can be observed in natural products, pharmaceutically and bioactive compounds. For these reasons, they constitute privileged targets for the development of ne ...

EPFL2020

Structural and Photophysical Templating of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes with Single-Stranded DNA

Ursula Röthlisberger, Natalie Renuka Banerji, Polydefkis Diamantis

A promising approach to influence and control the photophysical properties of conjugated polymers is directing their molecular conformation by templating. We explore here the templating effect of single-stranded DNA oligomers (ssDNAs) on cationic polythiop ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Copper-Catalyzed 1,2-Methoxy Methoxycarbonylation of Alkenes with Methyl Formate and Synthetic Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of Koumine, Voacafricine A and Voacafricine B

Balázs Budai

The development of an unusual oxidative alkene difunctionalization using methyl formate and syn-thetic studies towards alkaloid natural products provide the basis of the thesis. The first chapter details the development of a method that forges methoxycarbo ...

EPFL2020

Triazene-Activated Donor–Acceptor Cyclopropanes: Ring-Opening and (3 + 2) Annulation Reactions

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Jérôme Waser, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Abdusalom Suleymanov, Zhaowen Dong, Eliott Hugo Joran Le Du, Bastian Antoine Rodolphe Claude Muriel

Donor–acceptor cyclopropanes substituted with 3,3-dialkyltriazenyl groups are described herein. The strong electron-donating character of the triazene renders the cyclopropanes highly reactive, allowing for catalyst-free ring-opening reactions with methano ...

2020

Development of New Strategies of Umpolung with Cyclic Hypervalent Iodine Reagents

Paola Caramenti

Organic chemistry is essential for the development of a modern society and technical progress requires the continuous development of synthetic methodologies Novel, efficient, selective and flexible protocols are employed to access complex frameworks from s ...

EPFL2019

Effect of furan pi-spacer and triethylene oxide methyl ether substituents on performance of phenothiazine sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Conjugated pi-spacers are used to improve the light harvesting properties of sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells. In several recent works, furan has outperformed other popular pi-spacers such as thiophene and phenyl. One of the best performing pheno ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Production, characterization and upgrading of biomass-derived acetal-stabilized carbohydrates

Ydna Marie Questell-Santiago

Biomass is an attractive source of renewable carbon-based fuels and chemicals. Multiple research efforts are centered around integrated biorefineries, where all fractions of biomass are converted to fuels or chemical products. These efforts are focused aro ...

EPFL2019

Protection Group Effects During α,γ-Diol Lignin Stabilization Promote High-Selectivity Monomer Production

Jeremy Luterbacher, Masoud Talebi Amiri, Wu Lan, Christopher Marc Hunston

Protection groups were introduced during biomass pretreatment to stabilize lignin's α,γ-diol group during its extraction and prevent its condensation. Acetaldehyde and propionaldehyde stabilized the α,γ-diol without any aromatic ring alkylation, which sign ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2018

Copper-catalyzed methylative difunctionalization of alkenes

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Xu Bao, Minh Tu Ha

Trifluoromethylative difunctionalization and hydrofunctionalization of unactivated alkenes have been developed into powerful synthetic methodologies. On the other hand, methylative difunctionalization of olefins remains an unexplored research field. We rep ...

Nature Research2018

Charge transporting material for optoelectronic and/or photoelectrochemical devices

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Iwan Zimmermann, Paul Gratia, Inés Garcia Benito

The present invention relates to an optoelectronic and/or photoelectrochemical device comprising at least one organic-inorganic perovskite as sensitizer and at least one compound of formula (I) comprising one benzotrithiophene core Q, wherein each thiophen ...

2017

Synthesis of Alkynylated Heterocycles by Direct C-H Alkynylation or Domino Alkynylation Reactions

Yifan Li

Heterocycles are important compounds in organic chemistry. To introduce functional groups on heterocycles or synthesize functionalized heterocycles stays a hot topic of research. Among all the functional groups, alkynes attracted a lot of attention not onl ...

EPFL2016

LCA of bioethanol and furfural production from vetiver

Edgard Gnansounou, Jegannathan Kenthorai Raman

In this study a prospective life cycle assessment of biorefinery system from vetiver leaves was carried out to know the environmental benefits of this system over conventional systems considering the geographical context of India. The composition of vetive ...

Elsevier2015

2-(Methoxycarbonyl)ethyl as a Removable N-Protecting Group: Synthesis of Indoloisoquinolinones by Pd(II)-Catalyzed Intramolecular Diamination of Alkynes

Jieping Zhu, Qian Wang, Bo Yao, Minh Tu Ha

Pd(II)-catalyzed double cyclization of 1,2-diarylethynes bearing an N-methyl-N-[2-(methoxycarbonyl)ethyl]amino and an aminocarbonyl group at the ortho positions of the two aromatic rings afforded the tetracyclic N-[2-(methoxycarbonyl)-ethyl]indoloisoquinol ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Three-Component Povarov Reaction–Heteroannulation with Arynes: Synthesis of 5,6-Dihydroindolo[1,2‑a]quinolines

Jieping Zhu, Qian Wang, Ala Bunescu

A reaction of 2-acyl substituted tetrahydroquinolines, prepared by Lewis acid-catalyzed three-component reaction of α-oxo aldehydes, anilines, and dienophiles, with in situ generated arynes afforded 5,6-dihydroindolo[1,2-a]- quinolines in good to excellent ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Pd(0)-Catalyzed Alkene Oxy- and Aminoalkynylation with Aliphatic Bromoacetylenes

Jérôme Waser, Stefano Nicolai, Raha Sedigh-Zadeh

Tetrahydrofurans and pyrrolidines are among the most important heterocycles found in bioactive compounds. Cyclization-functionalization domino reactions of alcohols or amines onto olefins,constitute one of the most efficient methods to access them. In this ...

American Chemical Society2013

Pd(0)-Catalyzed Oxy- and Aminoalkynylation of Olefins for the Synthesis of Tetrahydrofurans and Pyrrolidines

Jérôme Waser, Stefano Nicolai

The first Pd(0)-catalyzed intramolecular oxy- and aminoalkynylation of nonactivated olefins is reported. The reaction gives access to important tetrahydrofuran and pyrrolidine heterocycles with high diastereoselectivity. The unique synthetic potential of a ...

American Chemical Society2011