We have developed a groundbreaking chemical reaction using an N-heterocyclic carbene catalyst that has a low environmental impact to cleave the bond between the benzene ring of an aryl halide and ...

The importance of aryl sulfides in biologically active compounds has led chemists to develop methods to synthesize them from carbon-sulfur bond forming reactions. The conventional reaction ...

Less often, an alkyl or aryl halide is treated with a carboxylate salt. But these methods don’t work in the case of vinyl acetate and other vinyl esters because vinyl alcohols aren’t stable—they ...