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A critical overview and analysis of contemporary screening approaches toward the discovery of new reactivity is provided. A breakdown of each approach in terms of strategy, practicality and utility from the perspective of a synthetic chemist is also given, as well as considerations on the future of high-throughput screening in reaction discovery.
This Review draws an analogy between acid–base catalysis and redox catalysis. The 'electron is a catalyst' paradigm unifies mechanistically an assortment of synthetic transformations that otherwise have little or no apparent relationship. Various radical cascades catalysed by the electron are discussed.
Ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS) is enhancing many areas of (bio)chemical analysis because it can separate ions both by their mass-to-charge ratio and differences in their cross-sectional area. IM-MS can be used for structural characterization, enhanced analysis of complex mixtures or to gain insights into conformational dynamics.