New strategies for the transition-metal catalyzed synthesis of aliphatic amines

A Trowbridge, SM Walton, MJ Gaunt - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal catalyzed reactions that are able to construct complex aliphatic amines from
simple, readily available feedstocks have become a cornerstone of modern synthetic …

Transition metal-catalyzed C–H amination: scope, mechanism, and applications

Y Park, Y Kim, S Chang - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Catalytic transformation of ubiquitous C–H bonds into valuable C–N bonds offers an efficient
synthetic approach to construct N-functionalized molecules. Over the last few decades …

Stereoelectronic power of oxygen in control of chemical reactivity: the anomeric effect is not alone

IV Alabugin, L Kuhn, MG Medvedev… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Although carbon is the central element of organic chemistry, oxygen is the central element of
stereoelectronic control in organic chemistry. Generally, a molecule with a C–O bond has …

Enantioselective, intermolecular benzylic C–H amination catalysed by an engineered iron-haem enzyme

CK Prier, RK Zhang, AR Buller, S Brinkmann-Chen… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
C–H bonds are ubiquitous structural units of organic molecules. Although these bonds are
generally considered to be chemically inert, the recent emergence of methods for C–H …

Stereocontrolled 1, 3-nitrogen migration to access chiral α-amino acids

CX Ye, X Shen, S Chen, E Meggers - Nature chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract α-Amino acids are essential for life as building blocks of proteins and components
of diverse natural molecules. In both industry and academia, the incorporation of unnatural …

Manganese-catalysed benzylic C(sp3)–H amination for late-stage functionalization

JR Clark, K Feng, A Sookezian, MC White - Nature chemistry, 2018 - nature.com
Reactions that directly install nitrogen into C–H bonds of complex molecules are significant
because of their potential to change the chemical and biological properties of a given …

Bond formations between two nucleophiles: transition metal catalyzed oxidative cross-coupling reactions

C Liu, H Zhang, W Shi, A Lei - Chemical Reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
In chemistry, a nucleophile is a molecule or ion with a lone pair of electrons. It donates both
bonding electrons to its reaction partner (the electrophile) when forming a chemical bond. 1 …

If C H Bonds Could Talk: Selective C H Bond Oxidation

T Newhouse, PS Baran - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
C H oxidation has a long history and an ongoing presence in research at the forefront of
chemistry and interrelated fields. As such, numerous highly useful articles and reviews have …

Iron-Catalyzed Intermolecular Amination of Benzylic C(sp3)–H Bonds

H Khatua, S Das, S Patra, SK Das, S Roy… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A catalytic system for intermolecular benzylic C (sp3)–H amination is developed utilizing 1,
2, 3, 4-tetrazole as a nitrene precursor via iron catalysis. This method enables direct …

Ligand-accelerated enantioselective methylene C(sp3)–H bond activation

G Chen, W Gong, Z Zhuang, MS Andrä, YQ Chen… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Effective differentiation of prochiral carbon–hydrogen (C–H) bonds on a single methylene
carbon via asymmetric metal insertion remains a challenge. Here, we report the discovery of …