The use of in situ generated (NHC)-Ni catalytic species (NHC = N-heterocyclic carbene) allows for the synthesis, in short reaction times, of a variety of tertiary alcohols from secondary alcohols through a domino oxidation-addition protocol.

An efficient methodology for the synthesis of a series of new fused polyclyclic indoles has been developed by Brønsted acid-catalyzed intramolecular Friedel-Crafts reactions of properly designed indolyl alcohols.

A novel, efficient and atom-economic Rh-catalyzed stereoselective tandem nucleophilic addition/bicyclization for the synthesis of 2,3-fused bicyclic furans from readily available acyclic diyne-enones and alcohols has been developed.

Organoboron compounds are useful in asymmetric synthesis. We have developed an efficient methodology for the highly enantioselective synthesis of tertiary boronic esters from the corresponding secondary benzylic alcohols. Further stereospecific transformations of the boronic ester moiety are described including the preparation of tertiary alcohols, C-tertiary amines and tertiary arylalkanes. Se...

The influence of copper promoters and reaction conditions on the formation of alcohols byproducts of a common Fischer-Tropsch synthesis used iron-based catalysts were investigated. A good compromise of 28%Cu/FeKLaSiO2 can lead to the optimization of an improved Fischer-Tropsch catalyst. The product distribution shifts towards hydrocarbons with increasing the reaction temperature, while pressure...

Urinary excretion of bile alcohols and bile acids in patients with complete extrahepatic cholestasis before and after the release by external biliary drainage was studied. Following extraction, isolation, and hydrolysis, bile alcohols were determined by capillary gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry as dimethylethylsilyl derivatives. During cholestasis, 8.89 mumol/day of bile alcohol and...