Thanks to the superstrength of the silicon-fluorine bond, chemists at the University of Zurich have developed a new incarnation of the venerable Friedel-Crafts reaction: intramolecular aryl-aryl ...

From life-saving drugs and synthetic polymers to diverse advanced materials, the products containing organic compounds seem endless, thanks in part to regioselectivity, a feature in chemical reactions ...

IN an earlier communication 1, evidence was given upon which the following conclusion was based. In the dimerization of di-isobutene and the polymerization of isobutene, it is essential that a trace ...

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