Colorado-based company’s photocatalysis platform enables faster and lower cost chemical synthesis and now includes new light-based organic photocatalysts for the Birch reductionBOULDER, Colo ...

The Birch reduction is a reaction commonly used to make medicines and bioactive compounds, but the laborious process typically requires that chemists handle liquid ammonia, use cryogenic ...

Birch reduction runs ammonia-free Crown ethers simplify the set-up of classic reaction by Tien Nguyen June 17, 2018 1 min read A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 25 ...

Mechanochemical Birch Reduction with Low Reactive Alkaline Earth Metals Journal: Angewandte Chemie International Edition Published: 2024-04-03 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202319449 Affiliations: 2 Authors ...

Enzymatic Birch reduction of benzoyl-CoA would require single electron transfer steps from the W center to the substrate ring, suggesting one-electron W (IV)-W (V) redox chemistry (Supplementary ...

When chemists at Pfizer examined routes to make anti-Parkinson’s drug candidate sumanirole at the kilogram scale, they saw only one option for the final step. They would need to do a Birch ...

The hot electrons generated by this mechanism demonstrate remarkable potential for a variety of organic reactions, including the Birch reduction and the reductive cleavage of C-Cl, C-Br, C-I, C-O ...