The asymmetric epoxidation elicited incredible excitement from the chemistry community, says Harvard’s Eric Jacobsen, who was a postdoc in Sharpless’s lab from 1986 to 1988.

K. Barry Sharpless, Ph.D., W.M. Keck Professor of Chemistry at The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology and the Department of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), has been awarded ...

It features a Sharpless epoxidation, a Grubbs olefin metathesis and uses an unusual transannular attack of carbamate nitrogen to yield the pyrrolizidine skeleton.

K. Barry Sharpless: Yeah, well, I remember I don’t know what year it was, Carolyn. But you came to Scripps to give a talk. And we had time—probably a half hour, at most 40 minutes—but we ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a team of Chinese scientists presents the talented propylene epoxidation with dioxygen catalyzed by Ti-containing zeolites. The H-terminated ...