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Frontispiece: Synthesis and Applications of Stenhouse Salts and Derivatives
Author(s) -
Gomes Rafael F. A.,
Coelho Jaime A. S.,
Afonso Carlos A. M.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201883761
Subject(s) - photochromism , chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , organic chemistry
Since the discovery in 1850 that furfural undergoes ring‐opening upon condensation with amines, researchers have been increasingly interested in the use of Stenhouse salts as important intermediates for the formation of difunctionalized cyclopentenones and as a new source for robust photochromic entities for several applications. In their Minireview on page 9170 ff., R. F. A. Gomes, J. A. S. Coelho and C. A. M. Afonso provide an overview on the chemistry of Stenhouse and Stenhouse‐like salts including the synthesis of cyclopentenones, the Piancatelli rearrangement, and the donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts.