Energy-transfer-enabled dearomative cycloaddition reactions of indoles/pyrroles via excited-state aromatics

M Zhu, X Zhang, C Zheng, SL You - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Exploring the enormous chemical space through an expedient building-up of
molecular diversity is an important goal of organic chemistry. The development of synthetic …

Rejuvenation of dearomative cycloaddition reactions via visible light energy transfer catalysis

A Palai, P Rai, B Maji - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Dearomative cycloaddition is a powerful technique to access sp3-rich three-dimensional
structural motifs from simple flat, aromatic feedstock. The building-up of unprecedentedly …

Visible-light-mediated synthesis of cyclobutene-fused indolizidines and related structural analogs

M Zhu, XL Huang, H Xu, X Zhang, C Zheng… - CCS …, 2021 - chinesechemsoc.org
Expedient assembly of unprecedented molecular scaffolds from readily accessible starting
materials in a sustainable fashion is highly pursued in modern organic chemistry. Herein …

Direct dearomatization of pyridines via an energy-transfer-catalyzed intramolecular [4+ 2] cycloaddition

J Ma, F Strieth-Kalthoff, T Dalton, M Freitag, JL Schwarz… - Chem, 2019 - cell.com
The catalytic dearomatization of pyridines, accessing medicinally relevant N-heterocycles, is
of high interest. Currently direct, dearomative strategies rely generally on reduction or …

Photocatalytic dearomative intermolecular [2+ 2] cycloaddition of heterocycles for building molecular complexity

MS Oderinde, A Ramirez, TGM Dhar… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Indole and indoline rings are important pharmacophoric scaffolds found in marketed drugs,
agrochemicals, and biologically active molecules. The [2+ 2] cycloaddition reaction is a …

Synthesis of complex bicyclic scaffolds by intermolecular photosensitized dearomative cycloadditions of activated alkenes and naphthalenes

W Wang, Y Cai, R Guo, MK Brown - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The rapid buildup of molecular complexity from simple precursors is a key goal in organic
chemistry. One strategy to achieve this is through a dearomative cycloaddition wherein a 2D …

Visible‐Light‐Induced Intramolecular Double Dearomative Cycloaddition of Arenes

M Zhu, H Xu, X Zhang, C Zheng… - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Herein we report visible‐light‐induced intramolecular double dearomative cycloaddition of
arenes. Compared with the well‐known photodimerization of arenes under ultraviolet …

Photochemical intermolecular dearomative cycloaddition of bicyclic azaarenes with alkenes

J Ma, S Chen, P Bellotti, R Guo, F Schäfer, A Heusler… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Dearomative cycloaddition reactions represent an ideal means of converting flat arenes into
three-dimensional architectures of increasing interest in medicinal chemistry. Quinolines …

Intermolecular dearomative [4+ 2] cycloaddition of naphthalenes via visible-light energy-transfer-catalysis

P Rai, K Maji, SK Jana, B Maji - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The dearomative cycloaddition reaction serves as a blueprint for creating sp3-rich three-
dimensional molecular topology from flat-aromatic compounds. However, severe reactivity …

Photoredox-enabled dearomative [2π+ 2σ] cycloaddition of phenols

S Dutta, D Lee, K Ozols, CG Daniliuc… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Dearomative photocycloaddition of monocyclic arenes is an appealing strategy for
comprehending the concept of “escape from flatland”. This brings the replacement of readily …