Radical Brook rearrangement: past, present, and future

Y Zhang, G Zhou, S Liu, X Shen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
The Brook rearrangement has emerged as one of the most pivotal transformations in organic
chemistry, with broad applications spanning organic synthesis, drug design, and materials …

Homogeneous catalysis and heterogeneous separation: Ionic liquids as recyclable photocatalysts for hydroacylation of olefins

HC Li, M Zhang, Q Lv, K Sun, XL Chen, L Qu… - Chinese Chemical …, 2025 - Elsevier
The photoinduced ligand-to-metal charge transfer (LMCT) process has been extensively
investigated, however, the recovery of photocatalysts has remained a persistent challenge in …

Synthesis of β-Silyl Amines via Merging Photoinduced Energy and Hydrogen Atom Transfer in Flow

Y Shao, CJ Ying, YC Wan, LW Zhan, BD Li… - Organic Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
The development of efficient methods for synthesizing β-silyl amines has long been a
significant goal in organic synthesis. Previous methods mainly relied on the use of …

Catalytic Asymmetric Cycloaddition of Olefins with In Situ Generated N-Boc-Formaldimine

M Guillén, M Leutzsch, B List - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chiral 1, 3-amino alcohols are ubiquitous structural motifs in natural products and active
pharmaceutical ingredients. We present a highly enantioselective, inverse-electron-demand …

Photocatalytic synthesis of β-amino acid derivatives from alkenes with alkyl formates

CJ Ying, Y Shao, YC Wan, M Zheng, LL Hua… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The aminocarbonylation of alkenes is an efficient approach to synthesize important β-amino
acid motifs. However, simple and convenient methods are still rare. Herein, we present a …

Access to 1, 2-and 1, 3-Amino Alcohols via Cu-Catalyzed Enantioselective Borylations of Allylamines

A Flaget, C Mazet - Organic Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
We report Cu-catalyzed enantioselective borylation/oxidation sequences that afford either
enantioenriched 1, 2-or 1, 3-amino alcohols starting from N, N-protected allylamines as a …

Regio-and Stereoselective β-Sulfonylamination of Alkynes via Photosensitized Bifunctional N–S Bond Homolysis

T Pu, SH Wu, L Cai, W Pu, Y Yuan, Z Zhuang… - Organic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen central radicals (NCRs) are versatile synthetic intermediates for creating functional
nitrogen-containing molecules. Herein, a photosensitized β-sulfonylamination of terminal …

EnT mediated alkoxy radical generation: the construction of 1, 6-amino alcohols using bifunctional oxime esters

Z Sun, X Du, X Li, X Xu - Chemical Communications, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The generation of long-chain alkoxy radicals via visible light-induced energy transfer (EnT)
has been accomplished through the design of a new class of bifunctional oxime esters …

Visible-Light-Induced Energy-Transfer-Mediated Hydrofunctionalization and Difunctionalization of Unsaturated Compounds via Sigma-Bond Homolysis of Energy …

Q Sun, SP Wang, Y Xu, A Yin, L Yang, J Zhu… - ACS …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, visible-light-mediated energy-transfer (EnT) catalysis, particularly
triplet–triplet energy-transfer (TTEnT) catalysis, has emerged as a mild and environmentally …

Photocatalytic Direct Para‐Selective C−H Amination of Benzyl Alcohols: Selectivity Independent of Side Substituents

D Liu, T Tu, T Zhang, G Nie, T Liao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aminoarenes are important molecules for broad applications in nearly all modern industries
that involve chemicals. Direct and site‐selective C− H bond amination of arenes provides …