Enantioselective borrowing hydrogen: a modern tool to construct enantioenriched molecules

A Alexandridis, A Quintard - ChemCatChem, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the quest for the more rapid and eco‐compatible preparation of complex molecules from
widely available ones, borrowing hydrogen is one of the most elegant manners to directly …

Iron-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation of allylic alcohols with isopropanol

MA Bari, SA Elsherbeni, T Maqbool… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report an iron-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation of allylic alcohols. The
operationally simple protocol employs a well-defined bench stable (cyclopentadienone) iron …

Terpenylation of Ketones and a Secondary Alcohol under Hydrogen-Borrowing Manganese Catalysis

S Jalwal, S Das, S Chakraborty - The Journal of Organic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
An Earth-abundant Mn–PNP pincer complex-catalyzed terpenylation of cyclic and acyclic
ketones and secondary alcohol 1-phenylethanol using isoprenoid derivatives prenol, nerol …

Ruthenium Complexes with NNN-Pincer Ligands for N-Methylation of Amines Using Methanol

M Bai, S Zhang, Z Lin, Z Hao, Z Han, GL Lu… - Inorganic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
A series of ruthenium complexes (Ru1–Ru4) bearing new NNN-pincer ligands were
synthesized in 58–78% yields. All of the complexes are air and moisture stable and were …

Manganese‐Catalyzed α‐Alkylation of Sulfones using Alcohols via a Hydrogen‐Borrowing Strategy: Synthesis of Branched Sulfones

A Verma, AJ Elias - Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we report an efficient and sustainable manganese‐catalyzed α‐C− H bond
alkylation methodology to synthesize branched sulfones via a hydrogen borrowing pathway …