Mechanochemistry: new tools to navigate the uncharted territory of “impossible” reactions

F Cuccu, L De Luca, F Delogu, E Colacino… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanochemical transformations have made chemists enter unknown territories, forcing a
different chemistry perspective. While questioning or revisiting familiar concepts belonging …

Nickel-catalyzed reductive cross-couplings: new opportunities for carbon–carbon bond formations through photochemistry and electrochemistry

L Yi, T Ji, KQ Chen, XY Chen, M Rueping - CCS Chemistry, 2022 - chinesechemsoc.org
Metal-catalyzed cross-electrophile couplings have become a valuable tool for carbon–
carbon bond formation. This minireview provides a comprehensive overview of the recent …

Elucidating electron-transfer events in polypyridine nickel complexes for reductive coupling reactions

CS Day, Á Rentería-Gómez, SJ Ton, AR Gogoi… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Polypyridine-ligated nickel complexes are widely used as privileged catalysts in a variety of
cross-coupling reactions. The rapid adoption of these complexes is tentatively attributed to …

Alkyl carbon–carbon bond formation by Nickel/Photoredox cross‐coupling

JA Milligan, JP Phelan, SO Badir… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The union of photoredox and nickel catalysis has resulted in a renaissance in radical
chemistry as well as in the use of nickel‐catalyzed transformations, specifically for carbon …

Difunctionalization of alkenes involving metal migration

Y Li, D Wu, HG Cheng, G Yin - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The direct difunctionalization of alkenes, a cheap and abundant feedstock, represents one of
the most attractive strategies for increasing molecular complexity in synthetic organic …

Nickel/photoredox dual-catalyzed regiodivergent aminoalkylation of unactivated alkyl halides

W Wang, X Yan, F Ye, S Zheng, G Huang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A mild and regiodivergent aminoalkylation of unactivated alkyl halides is disclosed via a
dual photoredox/nickel catalysis. Bipyridyl-type ligands without an ortho-substituent control …

Thirty Years of (TMS)3SiH: A Milestone in Radical-Based Synthetic Chemistry

C Chatgilialoglu, C Ferreri, Y Landais… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
This review is an update on tris (trimethylsilyl) silane, TTMSS, in organic chemistry, focusing
on the advancements of the past decade. The overview includes a wide range of chemical …

Nickel‐Catalyzed Electrochemical Reductive Relay Cross‐Coupling of Alkyl Halides to Aryl Halides

KJ Jiao, D Liu, HX Ma, H Qiu, P Fang… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A highly regioselective Ni‐catalyzed electrochemical reductive relay cross‐coupling
between an aryl halide and an alkyl halide has been developed in an undivided cell …

Recent advances in nickel-catalyzed reductive hydroalkylation and hydroarylation of electronically unbiased alkenes

XX Wang, X Lu, Y Li, JW Wang, Y Fu - Science China Chemistry, 2020 - Springer
The use of simple and easily available feedstock to quickly and efficiently obtain compounds
with complex molecular structures through the transition-metal-catalyzed construction of C …

Tackling Remote sp3 C−H Functionalization via Ni‐Catalyzed “chain‐walking” Reactions

D Janssen‐Müller, B Sahoo, SZ Sun… - Israel Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nickel catalysts have recently played an important role for rapidly and reliably converting
feedstock chemicals into valuable compounds of interest for both pharmaceutical and …