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Abstracts of articles in the field of organic synthesis,
published in the most highly regarded organic chemistry journals

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Tandem Cross-Metathesis/Wittig Olefination: Generation of Conjugated Dienoic Esters from Terminal Olefins
R. P. Murelli, M. L. Snapper, Org. Lett., 2007, 9, 1749-1752.

Dicationic Electrophiles from Olefinic Amines in Superacid
Y. Zhang, A. McElrea, G. V. Sanchez, Jr., D. Do, A. Gomez, S. L . Aguirre, R. Rendy, D. A. Klumpp, J. Org. Chem., 2003, 68, 5119-5122.

Highly Active, Air-Stable Palladium Catalysts for the C-C and C-S Bond-Forming Reactions of Vinyl and Aryl Chlorides: Use of Commercially Available Palladium-Phosphinous Acids Complexes as Catalysts
G. Y. Li, J. Org. Chem., 2002, 67, 3643-3650.

A Good Bargain: An Inexpensive, Air-Stable Ruthenium Metathesis Catalyst Derived from α-Asarone
K. Grela, M. Kim, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2003, 963-966.

Asymmetric Conjugate Alkenylation of Enones Catalyzed by Chiral Diols
T. R. Wu, J. M. Chong, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 4908-4909.

An Olefin Metathesis/Double Bond Isomerization Sequence Catalyzed by an In Situ Generated Ruthenium Hydride Species
B. Schmidt, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2003, 816-819.

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Cyclization of 2-Alkyl-1-ethynylbenzenes via a 1,5-Hydrogen Shift of Ruthenium-Vinylidene Intermediates
A. Odedra, S. Datta, R.-S. Liu, J. Org. Chem., 2007, 72, 3289-3292.

Lewis Acidic Chloroaluminate Ionic Liquids: Novel Reaction Media for the Synthesis of 4-Chloropyrans
J. S. Yadv, B. V. S. Reddy, M. S. Reddy, N. Niranjan, A. R. Prasad, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2003, 1779-1783.

Catalytic Asymmetric Reductive Coupling of Alkynes and Aldehydes: Enantioselective Synthesis of Allylic Alcohols and α-Hydroxy Ketones
K. M. Miller, W.-S. Huang, T. F. Jamison, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 3442-3443.

Kinetic Control in Direct α-Silyloxy Ketone Synthesis: A New Regiospecific Catalyzed Cross Silyl Benzoin Reaction
X. Linghu, J. S. Johnson, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2003, 42, 2534-2536.

Solvent-Free Synthesis of Racemic α-Aminonitriles
A. Baeza, C. Nájera, J. M. Sansano, Synthesis, 2007, 1230-1234.

Alkynylboronic Esters as Efficient Dienophiles in Cobalt-Catalyzed Diels-Alder Reactions
G. Hilt, K. I. Smolko, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2003, 42, 2795-2797.

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