The gold-catalyzed tandem cyclization of 1,2-bis(alkynyl)-2-en-1-ones with indoles offers an efficient and straightforward route to indole-fused polycyclic systems. The process is realized through a cascade carbonyl-yne ...
An efficient, palladium-catalyzed Hiyama cross-coupling reaction of aryltrifluorosilanes with aryl chlorides has been developed. A wide variety of functionalized biaryl derivatives were isolated in good to excellent yiel...
The excited-state properties of unsubstituted ortho-phenylene oligomers have been studied using TD-DFT. Calculations of vertical transitions at the helical ground-state geometries are in good qualitative agreement with t...