Pyridines and diazines are ubiquitous in pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, yet there are limits in the synthetic methods that can directly transform these structures. We will present three distinct strategies for manipulating these heterocycles into more valuable derivatives. First, we will show that they can be converted into phosphonium salts with ...
The solvated electron (es-) is one of nature’s most powerful transient reactants, with thousands of reactions identified in water. What happens when these electrons are born near the surface of water instead of deep in the bulk? We create near-surface electrons by exposing a water microjet in vacuum to sodium ...
