Synthetic helical aromatic amide foldamers and in particular those based on guillotines have recently attracted much interest due to their capacity to adopt bioinspired folded conformations that are highly stable and pre...
The one-electron oxidation potentials [E-NHE(ox)(H(2)Q)], pK(a) (pK(a1) and pK(a2)) values, and bond dissociation energies (BDE1 and BDE2) of 118 important p- and o-dihydroquinones in DMSO were systematically predicted f...
The fundamental factors contributing toward the stereoselectivity in organocatalyzed asymmetric Michael reaction between aldehydes (propanal and 3-phenyl propanal) and methyl vinyl ketone (MVK) are established by using d...
4-Hydroxy-6-methylene-2,4-cyclohexadien-1-one (1) and 4-methoxy-6-methylene-2,4-cyclohexadien-1-one (2) were generated by efficient (Phi = 0.3) photodehydration of 2-(hydroxymethyl)benzene-1,4-diol (3a) and 2-(hydroxymet...