Recent advances in the catalytic N-methylation and N-trideuteromethylation reactions using methanol and deuterated methanol

V Goyal, N Sarki, A Narani, G Naik, K Natte… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
N-methylamine functionalities are valuable motifs, which play vital roles in the properties
and activities of essential fine and bulk chemicals including molecules used in life science …

Recent advances in sustainable organic transformations using methanol: expanding the scope of hydrogen-borrowing catalysis

LM Kabadwal, S Bera, D Banerjee - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The present review focuses on recent progress achieved from 2017 to March 2021 using
methanol as a C1-alkylating agent. A series of novel metal-catalyzed hydrogen-borrowing …

Multi-Functionality of Methanol in Sustainable Catalysis: Beyond Methanol Economy

G Sivakumar, R Kumar, V Yadav, V Gupta… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Methanol is a fundamental feedstock and is widely used in the chemical and petroleum
industries. It can serve as a C1 source to make a variety of C–C and C–N bond formation …

Methanol as a Potential Hydrogen Source for Reduction Reactions Enabled by a Commercial Pt/C Catalyst

V Goyal, T Bhatt, C Dewangan, A Narani… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Catalytic reduction reactions using methanol as a transfer hydrogenating agent is gaining
significant attention because this simple alcohol is inexpensive and produced on a bulk …

Methanol as a greener C1 synthon under non-noble transition metal-catalyzed conditions

P Mehara, P Das - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The exploration of methanol as a safe, easily accessible as well as environmentally benign
C1 synthon has captivated gigantic attention worldwide. It has surfaced as an increasingly …

Transition-metal-free silylboronate-mediated cross-couplings of organic fluorides with amines

J Zhou, Z Zhao, N Shibata - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
C–N bond cross-couplings are fundamental in the field of organic chemistry. Herein,
silylboronate-mediated selective defluorinative cross-coupling of organic fluorides with …

Base Metal‐Catalyzed C‐Methylation Reactions Using Methanol

N Sarki, V Goyal, K Natte… - Advanced Synthesis & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
C‐methylation is a vitally important reaction applicable in chemical synthesis and structure‐
based drug design. Notably, the “magic methyl” effect has become decisive in medicinal …

Manganese‐Catalyzed Mono‐N‐Methylation of Aliphatic Primary Amines without the Requirement of External High‐Hydrogen Pressure

J Ji, Y Huo, Z Dai, Z Chen, T Tu - Angewandte Chemie, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The synthesis of mono‐N‐methylated aliphatic primary amines has traditionally been
challenging, requiring noble metal catalysts and high‐pressure H2 for achieving satisfactory …

Transfer Hydrogenation of N- and O-Containing Heterocycles Including Pyridines with H3N–BH3 Under the Catalysis of the Homogeneous Ruthenium Precatalyst

T Bhatt, K Natte - Organic Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this study, we report a transfer hydrogenation protocol that utilizes borane–ammonia (H3N–
BH3) as the hydrogen source and a commercially available RuCl3· x H2O precatalyst for the …

Homogenous nickel-catalyzed chemoselective transfer hydrogenation of functionalized nitroarenes with ammonia–borane

C Dewangan, S Kumawat, T Bhatt… - Chemical Communications, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Homogeneous Ni-catalyzed highly selective transfer hydrogenation of nitroarenes was
successfully established using NH3BH3 as a hydrogen source. A broad range of functional …