Photoinduced gold-catalyzed divergent dechloroalkylation of gem-dichloroalkanes

CL Ji, J Han, T Li, CG Zhao, C Zhu, J Xie - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The use of alkyl chlorides as C (sp 3)-hybridized electrophiles for the construction of C (sp 3)–
C (sp 3) bonds represents one of the most challenging issues in organic synthesis …

Synthetic approaches to the new drugs approved during 2021

EL McInturff, SP France, CA Leverett… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Each year, new drugs are introduced to the market, representing structures that have affinity
for biological targets implicated in human diseases and conditions. These new chemical …

Carbene reactivity from alkyl and aryl aldehydes

L Zhang, BM DeMuynck, AN Paneque, JE Rutherford… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Carbenes are highly enabling reactive intermediates that facilitate a diverse range of
otherwise inaccessible chemistry, including small-ring formation and insertion into strong σ …

Simmons–Smith Cyclopropanation: A Multifaceted Synthetic Protocol toward the Synthesis of Natural Products and Drugs: A Review

R Munir, AF Zahoor, S Javed, B Parveen, A Mansha… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simmons–Smith cyclopropanation is a widely used reaction in organic synthesis for
stereospecific conversion of alkenes into cyclopropane. The utility of this reaction can be …

Catalytic Asymmetric Cyclopropanations with Nonstabilized Carbenes

KE Berger, RJ Martinez, J Zhou… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cyclopropanes are common building blocks in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and
organic materials. The most general methods for the synthesis of chiral cyclopropanes are …

Deoxygenative haloboration and enantioselective chloroboration of carbonyls

D Wang, J Zhou, Z Hu, T Xu - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Deoxygenative difunctionalization of carbonyls affords a straightforward and effective route
to construct geminal dual functionalized motifs. However, the research in this field is very …

Development of the commercial manufacturing process for Nirmatrelvir in 17 months

C Allais, CG Connor, NM Do, S Kulkarni, JW Lee, T Lee… - 2023 - ACS Publications
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Catalytic Olefin Cyclopropanation with In Situ-Generated Dialkyl Diazomethanes via Co (II)-Based Metalloradical Catalysis

BG Cai, C Empel, S Jana, J Xuan, RM Koenigs - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of dialkyl-substituted cyclopropanes is an important challenge in synthesis
with applications in drug discovery and agrochemistry. Herein, we report on the synthesis of …

Efficient Synthesis of Orphaned Cyclopropanes Using Sulfones as Carbene Equivalents

JD Johnson, CR Teeples, NR Akkawi… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Small molecules containing 1, 1-dimethylcyclopropanes are prevalent throughout nature but
are difficult to synthesize using state-of-the-art metal-catalyzed carbene transfer methods …

Cyclopropanation of unactivated alkenes with non-stabilized iron carbenes

BM DeMuynck, L Zhang, EK Ralph, DA Nagib - Chem, 2024 - cell.com
Cyclopropanes are ubiquitous in medicines, yet robust synthetic access to a wide range of
sterically and electronically diverse analogs remains a challenge. To address the synthetic …