Exploring Molecular Complexity by N-Heterocyclic Carbene Organocatalysis: New Activation and Reaction Diversity.
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DOI: 10.1002/tcr.202200219
Abstract: The development of catalytic synthetic approaches towards molecular complexity from simple materials continues to be an ultimate goal in synthetic chemistry. Over the past decades, N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) organocatalysis has been extensively investigated to provide… read more here.
Keywords: new activation; molecular complexity; organocatalysis; complexity ... See more keywords
Costly circRNAs, Effective Population Size, and the Origins of Molecular Complexity.
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DOI: 10.1007/s00239-021-10033-1
Abstract: While much excitement has attended the discovery and study of circular RNAs, a new study in Cell Reports suggests that most mammalian circRNAs are not only functionless, but in fact costly. Comparison across three species is… read more here.
Keywords: molecular complexity; hypothesis; drift barrier; effective population ... See more keywords
Organometallic chemistry: A shortcut to molecular complexity.
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DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2750
Abstract: A unique transformation for the site-selective cleavage of one C–C single bond and two C–H bonds in sequence has now been developed. This enables a simple carbon skeleton to be reorganized into a significantly more… read more here.
Keywords: shortcut molecular; chemistry; molecular complexity; organometallic chemistry ... See more keywords
The emergence of interstellar molecular complexity explained by interacting networks
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2119734119
Abstract: Significance The road to life is punctuated by transitions toward complexity, from astrochemistry to biomolecules and eventually, to living organisms. Disentangling the origin of such transitions is a challenge where the application of complexity and… read more here.
Keywords: interstellar molecular; explained interacting; molecular complexity; emergence interstellar ... See more keywords