A paper published by Prof. Pericàs group in Green Chemistry has been highlighted in Synfacts, 12 (09),0990. Synfacts selects the most significant results on synthetic organic chemistry that appear in the literature considered as the future trends in synthetic chemistry.

The paper describes that a polystyrene (PS) immobilized triazolylproline has been prepared by a bottom-up approach involving co-polymerization with full regiocontrol. The resulting PS resin swells in water and has been applied to the enantioselective cross-aldol reaction and to the self-aldol reaction of aldehydes under essentially neat conditions, excellent yields and stereoselectivities being recorded.

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