Borrowing hydrogen for organic synthesis

BG Reed-Berendt, DE Latham, MB Dambatta… - ACS Central …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Borrowing hydrogen is a process that is used to diversify the synthetic utility of commodity
alcohols. A catalyst first oxidizes an alcohol by removing hydrogen to form a reactive …

Cobalt-catalyzed dehydrogenative functionalization of alcohols: progress and future prospect

I Borthakur, A Sau, S Kundu - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Functionalization of alcohol is a promising field in synthesis for the possible conservation of
fossil-based-feedstocks, since alcohols can be easily obtained from readily available …

Modular assembly of arenes, ethylene and heteroarenes for the synthesis of 1, 2-arylheteroaryl ethanes

T Liu, T Li, ZY Tea, C Wang, T Shen, Z Lei, X Chen… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The 1, 2-arylheteroaryl ethane motif stands as a privileged scaffold with promising
implications in drug discovery. Conventional de novo syntheses of these molecules have …

Well-defined phosphine-free manganese (II)-complex-catalyzed synthesis of quinolines, pyrroles, and pyridines

A Maji, S Gupta, M Maji, S Kundu - The Journal of Organic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report a simple, phosphine-free, and inexpensive catalytic system based on a
manganese (II) complex for synthesizing different important N-heterocycles such as …

Alcohols as Substrates in Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Arylation, Alkylation, and Related Reactions

A Cook, SG Newman - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Alcohols are abundant and attractive feedstock molecules for organic synthesis. Many
methods for their functionalization require them to first be converted into a more activated …

Recent advances on non-precious metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization of N-heteroarenes

A Bera, LM Kabadwal, S Bera… - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
N-Heteroarenes are widely used for numerous medicinal applications, lifesaving drugs and
show utmost importance as intermediates in chemical synthesis. This feature article …

Designing Cobalt (II) Complexes for Tandem Dehydrogenative Synthesis of Quinoline and Quinazoline Derivatives

D Pal, A Mondal, R Sarmah, D Srimani - Organic Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this work, we have constructed three new Co (II) complexes in which steric features
govern their structural geometry. The metal ligand-cooperation behavior of the alkoxy arm is …

Ligand-tuned cobalt-containing coordination polymers and applications in water

R Tao, Y Yang, H Zhu, X Hu, D Wang - Green Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Ligands play a key role in modern catalysis research and occasionally determine whether a
reaction will take place under specific conditions, such as in water. In this experiment …

A strategic approach for Csp 3–H functionalization of 9 H-fluorene: an acceptorless dehydrogenation and borrowing hydrogen approach

R Sharma, A Mondal, A Samanta… - Catalysis Science & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein, we described the selective synthesis of both alkylated and alkenylated fluorenes
using a single SNS ligand derived nickel complex. The protocol was employed for a wide …

Manganese catalyzed C-alkylation of methyl N-heteroarenes with primary alcohols

A Jana, A Kumar, B Maji - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
C-Alkylations of nine different classes of methyl-substituted N-heteroarenes, including
quinolines, quinoxalines, benzimidazoles, benzoxazoles, pyrazines, pyrimidines …