First-generation organic reaction intermediates in zeolite chemistry and catalysis

X Gong, M Caglayan, Y Ye, K Liu, J Gascon… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Zeolite chemistry and catalysis are expected to play a decisive role in the next decade (s) to
build a more decentralized renewable feedstock-dependent sustainable society owing to the …

Iron-catalyzed C–H bond activation

R Shang, L Ilies, E Nakamura - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Catalytic C–H bond activation, which was an elusive subject of chemical research until the
1990s, has now become a standard synthetic method for the formation of new C–C and C …

Exploiting hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) in Lewis and Brønsted acid-catalyzed reactions

V Pozhydaiev, M Power, V Gandon, J Moran… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) is a solvent with unique properties that has recently gained
attention for promoting a wide range of challenging chemical reactions. It was initially …

Electrogenerated cationic reactive intermediates: the pool method and further advances

J Yoshida, A Shimizu, R Hayashi - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Electrochemistry serves as a powerful method for generating reactive intermediates, such as
organic cations. In general, there are two ways to use reactive intermediates for chemical …

Organocatalysis in inert C–H bond functionalization

Y Qin, L Zhu, S Luo - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
As two coexisting and fast-growing research fields in modern synthetic chemistry, the
merging of organocatalysis and C–H bond functionalization is well foreseeable, and the joint …

Catalytic Asymmetric Hydroalkoxylation of C–C Multiple Bonds: Focus Review

JL Kennemur, R Maji, MJ Scharf, B List - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Asymmetric hydroalkoxylation of alkenes constitutes a redox-neutral and 100% atom-
economical strategy toward enantioenriched oxygenated building blocks from readily …

Electroreductive olefin–ketone coupling

P Hu, BK Peters, CA Malapit… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A user-friendly approach is presented to sidestep the venerable Grignard addition to
unactivated ketones to access tertiary alcohols by reversing the polarity of the disconnection …

Carbocation chemistry confined in zeolites: spectroscopic and theoretical characterizations

W Chen, X Yi, Z Liu, X Tang, A Zheng - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Acid-catalyzed reactions inside zeolites are one type of broadly applied industrial reactions,
where carbocations are the most common intermediates of these reaction processes …

Switchable 1, 2-rearrangement enables expedient synthesis of structurally diverse fluorine-containing scaffolds

Y Ping, Q Pan, Y Guo, Y Liu, X Li… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Skeletal rearrangement that changes the connectivity of the molecule via cleavage and
reorganization of carbon–carbon bonds is a fundamental and powerful strategy in complex …

Asymmetric dearomatization of indoles with azodicarboxylates via cascade electrophilic amination/aza-prins cyclization/phenonium-like rearrangement

XY Huang, PP Xie, LM Zou, C Zheng… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report a highly efficient synthesis of enantioenriched aza-[3.3. 1]-bicyclic
enamines and ketones, a class of structural cores in many natural products, via asymmetric …