Comproportionation and disproportionation in nickel and copper complexes

CS Day, R Martin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Disproportionation and comproportionation reactions have become increasingly important
electron transfer events in organometallic chemistry and catalysis. The renewed interest in …

Nickel chain-walking catalysis: a journey to migratory carboboration of alkenes

Y Li, G Yin - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Chain-walking offers extensive opportunities for innovating synthetic methods
that involve constructing chemical bonds at unconventional sites. This approach provides …

Enantioselective C(sp3)–C(sp3) Reductive Cross-Electrophile Coupling of Unactivated Alkyl Halides with α-Chloroboronates via Dual Nickel/Photoredox Catalysis

J Zhou, D Wang, W Xu, Z Hu, T Xu - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Substantial advances in enantioconvergent C (sp3)–C (sp3) bond formations have been
made with nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling of racemic alkyl electrophiles with organometallic …

Catalysis with diboron (4)/pyridine: application to the broad-scope [3+ 2] cycloaddition of cyclopropanes and alkenes

Z Ding, Z Liu, Z Wang, T Yu, M Xu, J Wen… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In contrast to the extensive but non-recyclable use of tetraalkoxydiboron (4) compounds as
stoichiometric reagents in diverse reactions, this article reports an atom-economical reaction …

Nickel-catalyzed 1, 1-aminoborylation of unactivated terminal alkenes

L Talavera, RRA Freund, H Zhang, M Wakeling… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Herein, we disclose a Ni-catalyzed 1, 1-difunctionalization of unactivated terminal alkenes
that enables the incorporation of two different heteroatom motifs across an olefin backbone …

Deoxygenative haloboration and enantioselective chloroboration of carbonyls

D Wang, J Zhou, Z Hu, T Xu - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Deoxygenative difunctionalization of carbonyls affords a straightforward and effective route
to construct geminal dual functionalized motifs. However, the research in this field is very …

Selective Coupling of 1, 2‐Bis‐Boronic Esters at the more Substituted Site through Visible‐Light Activation of Electron Donor–Acceptor Complexes

H Wang, J Wu, A Noble, VK Aggarwal - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bis‐boronic esters are useful synthetic intermediates particularly as the two boronic esters
can be selectively functionalized. Usually, the less hindered primary boronic ester reacts, but …

Ni-Catalyzed Radical-Promoted Defluoroalkylborylation of Trifluoromethyl Alkenes To Access gem-Difluorohomoallylic Boronates

J Qiu, C Wang, L Zhou, Y Lou, K Yang, Q Song - Organic Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
gem-Difluoroalkenyl boronates are attractive synthons for constructing diverse gem-
difluoroalkenes and organoboron compounds. However, the strategies for the construction …

Modularity in the Csp3 Space─Alkyl Germanes as Orthogonal Molecular Handles for Chemoselective Diversification

A Selmani, MD Schoetz, AE Queen… - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
To meet the need for a rapid, streamlined, and potentially automatable molecule synthesis,
modular coupling approaches are highly desired. While the diversification of aromatic …

Metal-free radical difunctionalization of ethylene

J Yu, X Zhang, X Wu, T Liu, ZQ Zhang, J Wu, C Zhu - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
Owing to its simplicity, ethylene, as the most abundant organic feedstock, only finds limited
applications in fine chemical synthesis, resulting in molecules of modest complexity …