Strategies and Mechanisms of First-Row Transition Metal-Regulated Radical C–H Functionalization

X Wang, J He, YN Wang, Z Zhao, K Jiang… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Radical C–H functionalization represents a useful means of streamlining synthetic routes by
avoiding substrate preactivation and allowing access to target molecules in fewer steps. The …

The continuum of carbon–hydrogen (C–H) activation mechanisms and terminology

KM Altus, JA Love - Communications Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
As a rapidly growing field across all areas of chemistry, CH activation/functionalisation is
being used to access a wide range of important molecular targets. Of particular interest is the …

Selective [2σ+ 2σ] cycloaddition enabled by boronyl radical catalysis: synthesis of highly substituted bicyclo [3.1. 1] heptanes

T Yu, J Yang, Z Wang, Z Ding, M Xu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In contrast to the traditional and widely-used cycloaddition reactions involving at least a π
bond component, a [2σ+ 2σ] radical cycloaddition between bicyclo [1.1. 0] butanes (BCBs) …

Catalytic applications of vanadium: a mechanistic perspective

RR Langeslay, DM Kaphan, CL Marshall… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The chemistry of vanadium has seen remarkable activity in the past 50 years. In the present
review, reactions catalyzed by homogeneous and supported vanadium complexes from …

The direct catalytic oxidation of methane to methanol—a critical assessment

M Ravi, M Ranocchiari… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the large number of disparate approaches for the direct selective partial oxidation of
methane, none of them has translated into an industrial process. The oxidation of methane …

Metallomimetic chemistry of boron

MA Légaré, C Pranckevicius, H Braunschweig - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The study of main-group molecules that behave and react similarly to transition-metal (TM)
complexes has attracted significant interest in recent decades. Most notably, the attractive …

Transition-metal-catalyzed direct addition of unactivated C–H bonds to polar unsaturated bonds

L Yang, H Huang - Chemical Reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal-catalyzed nucleophilic addition of organometallic reagents to polar
unsaturated substrates is one of the most important and powerful bond-forming strategies …

Rapid atom-efficient polyolefin plastics hydrogenolysis mediated by a well-defined single-site electrophilic/cationic organo-zirconium catalyst

AH Mason, A Motta, A Das, Q Ma, MJ Bedzyk… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Polyolefins comprise a major fraction of single-use plastics, yet their catalytic deconstruction/
recycling has proven challenging due to their inert saturated hydrocarbon connectivities …

Coinage metal hydrides: synthesis, characterization, and reactivity

AJ Jordan, G Lalic, JP Sadighi - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Hydride complexes of copper, silver, and gold encompass a broad array of structures, and
their distinctive reactivity has enabled dramatic recent advances in synthesis and catalysis …

Metal-catalyzed CH activation/functionalization: The fundamentals

F Roudesly, J Oble, G Poli - Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 2017 - Elsevier
An isolated Csingle bondH bond in a molecule has a very low reactivity owing to the large
kinetic barrier associated to the Csingle bondH bond cleavage and the apolar nature of this …