Strategies and perspectives to catch the missing pieces in energy‐efficient hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline media

S Anantharaj, S Noda, VR Jothi, SC Yi… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Transition metal hydroxides (M‐OH) and their heterostructures (X| M‐OH, where X can be a
metal, metal oxide, metal chalcogenide, metal phosphide, etc.) have recently emerged as …

Recent advances in gold (III) chemistry: structure, bonding, reactivity, and role in homogeneous catalysis

L Rocchigiani, M Bochmann - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade the organometallic chemistry of gold (III) has seen remarkable
advances. This includes the synthesis of the first examples of several compound classes that …

2D MXenes: tunable mechanical and tribological properties

BC Wyatt, A Rosenkranz, B Anasori - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D transition metal carbides, nitrides, and carbonitrides, known as MXenes, were
discovered in 2011 and have grown to prominence in energy storage, catalysis …

Nickel Catalysis via SH2 Homolytic Substitution: The Double Decarboxylative Cross-Coupling of Aliphatic Acids

AV Tsymbal, LD Bizzini… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cross-coupling platforms are traditionally built around a sequence of closed-shell steps,
such as oxidative addition, transmetalation, and reductive elimination. Herein, we describe a …

Enantioselective alkylation of α-amino C(sp3)−H bonds via photoredox and nickel catalysis

J Li, B Cheng, X Shu, Z Xu, C Li, H Huo - Nature Catalysis, 2024 - nature.com
The catalytic enantioselective construction of C (sp 3)− C (sp 3) bonds remains a substantial
challenge in organic synthesis. One particularly promising approach is the use of transition …

Nontraditional Fragment Couplings of Alcohols and Carboxylic Acids: C(sp3)–C(sp3) Cross-Coupling via Radical Sorting

HA Sakai, DWC MacMillan - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Alcohols and carboxylic acids are among the most commercially abundant, synthetically
versatile, and operationally convenient functional groups in organic chemistry. Under visible …

Late-Stage C(sp3)–H Methylation of Drug Molecules

E Mao, DWC MacMillan - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Methyl groups are well understood to play a critical role in pharmaceutical molecules,
especially those bearing saturated heterocyclic cores. Accordingly, methods that install …

Complementary Strategies for Directed C(sp3)−H Functionalization: A Comparison of Transition‐Metal‐Catalyzed Activation, Hydrogen Atom Transfer, and Carbene …

JCK Chu, T Rovis - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The functionalization of C (sp3)− H bonds streamlines chemical synthesis by allowing the
use of simple molecules and providing novel synthetic disconnections. Intensive recent …

The essential role of bond energetics in C–H activation/functionalization

XS Xue, P Ji, B Zhou, JP Cheng - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The most fundamental concepts in chemistry are structure, energetics, reactivity and their
inter-relationships, which are indispensable for promoting chemistry into a rational science …

Thermodynamic hydricity of transition metal hydrides

ES Wiedner, MB Chambers, CL Pitman… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Transition metal hydrides play a critical role in stoichiometric and catalytic transformations.
Knowledge of free energies for cleaving metal hydride bonds enables the prediction of …