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Aromaticity of ring carbo-mers of [N]annulenes and [N]cycloalkanes.

Efficient removal and mechanisms of water soluble aromatic contaminants by a reduced-charge bentonite modified with benzyltrimethylammonium cation.

Oxidations of N-(3-indoleethyl) cyclic aliphatic amines by horseradish peroxidase: the indole ring binds to the enzyme and mediates electron-transfer amine oxidation.

Enantioselective total synthesis of the oral contraceptive desogestrel by a double Heck reaction.

Solid-phase combinatorial synthesis of 2-arylquinazolines and 2-arylquinazolinones by an 4-alkoxyaniline linker.

Soluble polymer-supported synthesis of 5-arylidene thiazolidinones and pyrimidinones using a novel traceless linker strategy.

A versatile bifunctional chelate for radiolabeling humanized anti-CEA antibody with In-111 and Cu-64 at either thiol or amino groups: PET imaging of CEA-positive tumors with whole antibodies.

Carbocycle synthesis through facile and efficient palladium-catalyzed allylative de-aromatization of naphthalene and phenanthrene allyl chlorides.

Efficient copper-promoted N-arylations of aryl halides with amines.

Toward selective reactions with C-H bonds: a rationale for the regio- and stereochemistry of dichlorocarbene insertions into cyclic hydrocarbons.

Rhodium-catalyzed cyclohydrocarbonylation approach to the syntheses of enantiopure homokainoids.

Direct excitation luminescence spectroscopy of Eu(III) complexes of 1,4,7-tris(carbamoylmethyl)-1,4,7,10- tetraazacyclododecane derivatives and kinetic studies of their catalytic cleavage of an RNA analog.

Conformation and dynamics of arylthiol self-assembled monolayers on Au(111).

Copper(I)-mediated and microwave-assisted C(aryl)-O(carboxylic) coupling: synthesis of benzopyranones and isolamellarin alkaloids.

Extraction of hydrophobic species into a water-soluble synthetic receptor.

Nickel(0)-catalyzed [2 + 2 + 2 + 2] cycloadditions of terminal diynes for the synthesis of substituted cyclooctatetraenes.

Microwave-enhanced alpha-arylation of a protected glycine in water: evaluation of 3-phenylglycine derivatives as inhibitors of the tuberculosis enzyme, glutamine synthetase.

Should contemporary density functional theory methods be used to study the thermodynamics of radical reactions?

11,20-Epoxybriaranes from the gorgonian coral Ellisella robusta (Ellisellidae).

Catalytic asymmetric [4 + 2] cycloadditions of ketenes and N-thioacyl imines: alternatives for direct mannich reactions of enolizable imines.