Organocatalytic atroposelective synthesis of indole derivatives bearing axial chirality: strategies and applications

HH Zhang, F Shi - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Catalytic atroposelective syntheses of axially chiral compounds have stimulated
extensive interest in multiple communities, such as synthetic chemistry, biochemistry, and …

Advances on the merger of electrochemistry and transition metal catalysis for organic synthesis

CA Malapit, MB Prater, JR Cabrera-Pardo, M Li… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Synthetic organic electrosynthesis has grown in the past few decades by achieving many
valuable transformations for synthetic chemists. Although electrocatalysis has been popular …

Recent advances in catalytic asymmetric construction of atropisomers

JK Cheng, SH Xiang, S Li, L Ye, B Tan - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Atropisomerism is a stereochemical behavior portrayed by three-dimensional molecules that
bear rotationally restricted σ bond. Akin to the well-represented point-chiral molecules …

Synthesis of atropisomers by transition-metal-catalyzed asymmetric C–H functionalization reactions

CX Liu, WW Zhang, SY Yin, Q Gu… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal-catalyzed enantioselective C–H functionalization has become a powerful
strategy for the formation of C–C or C–X bonds, enabling the highly asymmetric synthesis of …

Organocatalytic atroposelective synthesis of N− N axially chiral indoles and pyrroles by de novo ring formation

KW Chen, ZH Chen, S Yang, SF Wu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The first highly atroposelective construction of N− N axially chiral indole scaffolds was
established via a new strategy of de novo ring formation. This strategy makes use of the …

Transition metal‐catalyzed enantioselective C− H functionalization via chiral transient directing group strategies

G Liao, T Zhang, ZK Lin, BF Shi - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Transition metal‐catalyzed enantioselective functionalization of C− H bond, the most
abundant functionality in organic molecules, has emerged as an expedient synthetic …

Transition Metal Catalyzed Enantioselective C(sp2)–H Bond Functionalization

TK Achar, S Maiti, S Jana, D Maiti - ACS Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Direct catalytic transformation of C–H bonds to new functionalities has provided a powerful
strategy to synthesize complex molecular scaffolds in a straightforward way. Unstinting …

Recent progress toward the construction of axially chiral molecules catalyzed by an N-heterocyclic carbene

J Wang, C Zhao, J Wang - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Axial chirality widely exists in natural products, pharmaceutical compounds, and other
functional molecules; these axially chiral compounds also find wide utility as catalysts or …

Efficient synthesis of sulfur-stereogenic sulfoximines via Ru (II)-catalyzed enantioselective C–H functionalization enabled by chiral carboxylic acid

T Zhou, PF Qian, JY Li, YB Zhou, HC Li… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Ru (II)-catalyzed enantioselective C–H functionalization involving an enantiodetermining C–
H cleavage step remains undeveloped. Here we describe a Ru (II)-catalyzed …

Single‐step synthesis of atropisomers with vicinal C− C and C− N diaxes by cobalt‐catalyzed atroposelective C− H annulation

BJ Wang, GX Xu, ZW Huang, X Wu, X Hong… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The atroposelective synthesis of atropisomers with vicinal diaxes remains rare and
challenging, due to the steric influence between the two axes and their unique topology …