Humboldt University of Berlin

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

JoVE Journal

Retropinacol/Cross-pinacol Coupling Reactions - A Catalytic Access to 1,2-Unsymmetrical Diols

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 Schneeweiß¹, 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.