A chiral, ammonium ylide based access to tetrasubstituted 2,3‐dihydrofurans starting from readily available benzylidene dicarbonyls and bromo acetophenones has been developed. The products are obtained in moderate to good yields with excellent diasteroselectivity and good to excellent enantioselectivity (up to 99:1 e.r.). The employed chiral amine can be recovered in near quantitative yield. The transformation can be run as a three‐component one‐pot reaction, generating the ammonium salt and ylide in situ. The scope of this reaction includes 17 new dihydrofurans with aromatic or heteroaromatic substituents.

We report on a novel experimental setup using a miniature integrating sphere fitted into a cryostat to measure spectrally resolved the absolute external photoluminescence quantum efficiency ηlum in the temperature range from 6 K to beyond room temperature. Direct access to ηlum is achieved by an uncomplicated method to calibrate the spatially integrated emission spectra absolutely. The fraction of light coupled out of the sphere into the detection system is in good approximation independent of the emitted wavelength and the emission characteristics of the investigated samples, due to their smallness compared with the total sphere area. This fact is proved by theoretical calculations for the sphere throughput and the irradiance within the sphere. To demonstrate the capabilities of this setup, we investigate in high quality ZnSe/ZnMgSSe 10× multiple quantum wells, the temperature dependence of the quantum efficiency, simultaneously for the quantum well and the barrier luminescence. Within a thermal activation model, three processes are found to contribute to the thermal quenching of ηlum of the quantum well luminescence.

Herein we show a novel approach toward the allylation of indoles. Thereby, we explore a class of bench-stable allylboronates and fine-tune their reactivity. The allylations of different substituted indoles proceed with negligible diastereo- and excellent enantioselectivities. This surprising selectivity (up to 99:1 er, up to ≈60:40 dr) is rationalized by DFT calculations.