This review describes the developments in the automated chemical solid-phase synthesis of glycans, with the initial discovery and major breakthroughs in Automated Glycan Assembly being highlighted.

The extraordinary performance of IDPis in terms of reactivity and selectivity control pushes the boundaries of what can be accomplished with asymmetric acid catalysis. This article discusses their applications to realize various challenging carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond formations.

The historical development and representative achievements in materials, device physics, and device engineering of organic solar cells (OSCs) are summarized in this review.

This review introduced the historical development and representative achievements in the field of aggregation-induced emission (AIE), including AIE systems, mechanism, and applications.

Unquenched Lewis acids and bases, designated “frustrated Lewis pairs”, provide new possibilities for a variety of catalytic transformations and open an enormous space for fine tuning the electronic and steric properties of catalysts.

Chiral phosphorus ligands have played a crucial role for the recent advances in asymmetric catalysis. This review summarizes chiral phosphorus ligands developed from the Laboratory of Professor Xumu Zhang in the latest 25 years. A number of iconic phosphorus ligands including bisphosphorus ligands with rigid chiral backbone such as BICP, PennPhos, TunePhos, and f-Binaphane, P-chiral bisphosphorus ligands TangPhos, Binapine, and DuanPhos, phosphine-phosphoramidte ligand YanPhos, noncovalent interaction-assisted ferrocenyl phosphorus ligand ZhaoPhos and WudaPhos, and tridentate ferrocenyl phosphorus ligands f-amphox are introduced, and their applications in asymmetric hydrogenation are emphasized.

The Catellani reaction, originally discovered by Catellani in 1997, and further developed by Catellani, Lautens and others, has emerged as a powerful strategy for the synthesis of polysubstituted arenes, which would be difficult to access via traditional methods. In this process, both ortho- and ipso-positions of aryl halides could be functionalized simultaneously with different electrophiles and terminating agents under the cooperative catalysis of palladium and norbornene (NBE). This review focuses on the significant progress of such transformations, and the section of typical Catellani reactions is divided into five parts according to the functionalization mode of ortho-C−H bond: alkylation, arylation, amination, acylation or thiolation.

This review describes the initial discovery of Shi epoxidation, the development of the carbohydrate-based chiral ketones, and the typical applications of Shi epoxidation in the synthesis of complex compounds.