Humboldt University of Berlin
2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE
JoVE Journal
Retropinacol/Cross-pinacol Coupling Reactions - A Catalytic Access to 1,2-Unsymmetrical Diols
Ulf Scheffler 1, Rainer Mahrwald 1
1Department of Chemistry, Humboldt University of Berlin
A novel account for the synthesis of unsymmetrical 1,2-diols based on a retropinacol/cross-pinacol coupling mechanism is described. Due to the catalytic execution of this reaction a considerable improvement compared to conventional cross-pinacol couplings is achieved.
Neuroscience
Visualization of Cortical Modules in Flattened Mammalian Cortices
Simon M. Lauer *1, Undine Schneeweiß 1, Michael Brecht 1,2,3, Saikat Ray *1
1Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, 3German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
This article describes a detailed methodology to obtain flattened tangential sections from mammalian cortices and visualize cortical modules using histochemical and immunohistochemical methods.
