Organic synthesis with the most abundant transition metal–iron: from rust to multitasking catalysts

S Rana, JP Biswas, S Paul, A Paik… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In industries and academic laboratories, several late transition metal-catalyzed prerequisite
reactions are widely performed during single and multistep synthesis. However, besides the …

Iron-catalyzed C–H bond activation

R Shang, L Ilies, E Nakamura - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Catalytic C–H bond activation, which was an elusive subject of chemical research until the
1990s, has now become a standard synthetic method for the formation of new C–C and C …

Iron catalysis in organic synthesis

I Bauer, HJ Knölker - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The present review “Iron Catalysis in Organic Synthesis” covers the literature until the end of
June 2014 and represents a comprehensive update of a previous article published by Bolm …

N-heterocyclic carbenes in late transition metal catalysis

S Diez-Gonzalez, N Marion, SP Nolan - Chemical Reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) are cyclic carbenes bearing at least one R-amino
substituent. 1 The most common subclasses of NHCs are represented in Chart 1. Early work …

Iron‐Catalyzed Cross‐Couplings in the Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals: In Pursuit of Sustainability

A Piontek, E Bisz, M Szostak - … Chemie International Edition, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The scarcity of precious metals has led to the development of sustainable strategies for
metal‐catalyzed cross‐coupling reactions. The establishment of new catalytic methods …

Chemistry of Iron N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes: Syntheses, Structures, Reactivities, and Catalytic Applications

K Riener, S Haslinger, A Raba, MP Högerl… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Iron is the most abundant transition metal in Earth, s crust; it is relatively inexpensive, not
very toxic, and environmentally benign. 1 Undoubtedly, due to the involvement in a multitude …

The promise and challenge of iron-catalyzed cross coupling

BD Sherry, A Fürstner - Accounts of chemical research, 2008 - ACS Publications
Transition metal catalysts, particularly those derived from the group VIII− X metals, display
remarkable efficiency for the formation of carbon− carbon and carbon− heteroatom bonds …

Coming of Age: Sustainable Iron‐Catalyzed Cross‐Coupling Reactions

WM Czaplik, M Mayer, J Cvengroš… - … Energy & Materials, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Iron‐catalyzed cross‐coupling reactions have, over the past years, developed to maturity
and today are an integral part of the organic chemist's toolkit. They benefit from low costs …

High-Oxidation-State 3d Metal (Ti–Cu) Complexes with N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligation

J Cheng, L Wang, P Wang, L Deng - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
High-oxidation-state 3d metal species have found a wide range of applications in modern
synthetic chemistry and materials science. They are also implicated as key reactive species …

Low-valent iron-catalyzed C− C bond formation− addition, substitution, and C− H bond activation

E Nakamura, N Yoshikai - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2010 - ACS Publications
The use of iron as a catalyst for organic synthesis has been increasingly attracting the
interest of chemists from economical and ecological points of view. While Fe (III) and Fe (II) …