The development of an enantioselective catalytic Claisen rearrangement1 remains an important yet elusive goal in chemical synthesis.2 With this objective in mind, we recently reported the acyl-Claisen rearrangement, a Lewis acid-catalyzed variant of the Bellus reaction3 that utilizes acid chlorides and allylic amines in the stereoselective synthesis of R,â-disubstituted-γ,δ-unsaturated carbonyl...

The electroanalytical techniques of pulse polarography, stripping voltammetry and on-line electrochemical detection have been used for the identification and determination of trace concentrations of a wide variety of environmentally significant organic molecules, usually after the application of sample pretreatment procedures, certain separation techniques and, in some cases, derivatisation. Cl...