Recent advances in the synthesis of indanes and indenes

B Gabriele, R Mancuso, L Veltri - Chemistry–A European …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Indanes and indenes are among the most important carbocycles. Many indane and indene
derivatives have shown important pharmacological activities, and the indane and indene …

C–H activation and alkyne annulation via automatic or intrinsic directing groups: towards high step economy

L Zheng, R Hua - The Chemical Record, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Direct transformation of carbon–hydrogen bond (C–H) has emerged to be a trend for
construction of molecules from building blocks with no or less prefunctionalization, leading …

Harnessing the Power of the Water‐Gas Shift Reaction for Organic Synthesis

A Ambrosi, SE Denmark - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Since its original discovery over a century ago, the water‐gas shift reaction (WGSR) has
played a crucial role in industrial chemistry, providing a source of H2 to feed fundamental …

Metal-catalyzed carbonylation of alkynes: key aspects and recent development

S Quintero-Duque, KM Dyballa, I Fleischer - Tetrahedron Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Carbonyl compounds represent an important class of synthetic intermediates in organic
chemistry with growing industrial significance. Among the plethora of methods available for …

CuCl-catalyzed cycloaddition of 1, 3-butadiynes with primary amines: An atom-economic process for synthesis of 1, 2, 5-trisubsituted pyrroles

Q Zheng, R Hua - Tetrahedron Letters, 2010 - Elsevier
CuCl-catalyzed cycloaddition of 1,3-butadiynes with primary amines: an atom-economic process
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Ruthenium-catalyzed ortho C–H arylation of aromatic nitriles with arylboronates and observation of partial para arylation

Y Koseki, K Kitazawa, M Miyake, T Kochi… - The Journal of Organic …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ruthenium-catalyzed C–H arylation of aromatic nitriles with arylboronates is described. The
use of RuH2 (CO){P (4-MeC6H4) 3} 3 as a catalyst provided higher yields of the ortho …

Rhodium-catalyzed intramolecular hydroacylation of 1, 2-disubstituted alkenes for the synthesis of 2-substituted indanones

J Yuan, C Liu, Y Chen, Z Zhang, D Yan, W Zhang - Tetrahedron, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The intramolecular hydroacylation of 1, 2-disubstituted alkenes was considered to
be a challenging task due to the side reactions resulted from the lack of additional …

A rhodium-catalyzed tandem reaction of N-sulfonyl triazoles with indoles: access to indole-substituted indanones

H Yuan, J Gong, Z Yang - Chemical Communications, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
An efficient strategy for the synthesis of structurally diverse indole-substituted indanones via
a rhodium (II)-catalyzed tandem reaction of N-sulfonyltriazoles with indoles was developed …

Palladium-Catalyzed Cyclocarbonylation of Arynes with Methyl Allyl Carbonates: Selective Synthesis of 1H-Inden-1-ones

SF Pi, XH Yang, XC Huang, Y Liang… - The Journal of …, 2010 - ACS Publications
A selective protocol for the synthesis of 2-methylene-3-substituted-2, 3-dihydro-1 H-inden-1-
ones and 2-benzylidene-2, 3-dihydro-1 H-inden-1-ones has been developed via palladium …

Synthesis of 3-methyleneisoindolin-1-ones via palladium-catalyzed C–Cl bond cleavage and cyclocarbonylation of ortho-chloro ketimines

J Ju, C Qi, L Zheng, R Hua - Tetrahedron Letters, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract PdCl 2 (PCy 3) 2-catalyzed cyclocarbonylative coupling of ortho-chloro
arylketimines with CO has been investigated to develop an efficient method for the synthesis …