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 ...

DURING the past four years we have been investigating the mechanism of two closely allied reactions—the polymerization of isobutene and the dimerization of di-isobutene. Both these reactions are ...

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Porous carbon materials with good microwave absorption properties were prepared by Friedel-Crafts reaction and high-temperature carbonization using inexpensive coal tar pitch as carbon source. Porous ...

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 ...