When chemists pick out reactive hot spots on aldehydes and ketones, they generally focus on the electrophilic carbonyl carbon or the α-carbon next door. The α-carbon can easily shed a proton and ...

This module covers aldehydes and ketones as the substrates and products of redox reactions. Structure is explained with both Lewis structures and molecular orbitals to discuss mechanisms in the ...

Rhodium-catalyzed carbon–hydrogen bond activation has attracted great interest in the construction of carbon–carbon and carbon–heteroatom bonds. In recent years, transition metal-mediated oxygen ...