Technical Notes:

1.Gold compounds as efficient co-catalysts in palladium-catalyzed alkynylation.

2.Aqueous-biphasic hydroformylation of higher alkenes promoted by alkylimidazolium salts.

3.Arylation of Phe and Tyr side chains of unprotected peptides by a Suzuki-Miyaura reaction in water.

4.Sterically demanding, sulfonated, triarylphosphines: Application to Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-coupling

ally steric and electronic properties, and coordination chemistry.

5.Hydrogen generation: catalytic acceleration and control by light.

6.Postsynthetic guanine arylation of DNA by Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling.

7.Experimental and kinetic modeling studies on the biphasic hydrogenation of levulinic acid to y-valerolactone using a homogeneous water-soluble Ru -(TPPTS) catalyst

8.Ruthenium-catalyzed 2+2+2 cycloaddition of diynes with nitriles in pure water.

9.Hydroe sterification of styrene derivatives catalyzed by an acidic resin supporting palladium complexes.

10.Chemical synthesis of Cys-Containing protein via chemoselective deprotection with different palladium

complexes