Two multicomponent reactions, the Ugi and Passerini reactions, are accelerated by the use of aqueous solutions. The rate enhancements compared to those by organic solvents can approach 300-fold. Reactions performed in water offer another advantage that products are often insoluble, permitting direct isolation by precipitation. The methods were applied to the preparation of three small combinato...

We analyze thermonuclear and pycnonuclear fusion reactions in dense matter containing atomic nuclei of different types. We extend a phenomenological expression for the reaction rate, proposed recently by Gasques et al. [11] for the one-component plasma of nuclei, to the multi-component plasma. The expression contains several fit parameters which we adjust to reproduce the best microscopic calcu...

Abstract Supramolecular assemblies from synthetic polymers have been widely used in materials science and biological applications. Developing convenient efficient methods to tune polymer structures architectures is important for achieving desired self‐assembly behaviors. Among various strategies, multicomponent reactions drawn significant interest due the high reaction efficiency, chemical sele...