Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed carbene insertion to C–H bonds

Y He, Z Huang, K Wu, J Ma, YG Zhou… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
C–H functionalization has been emerging as a powerful method to establish carbon–carbon
and carbon–heteroatom bonds. Many efforts have been devoted to transition-metal …

Skeletal editing of (hetero) arenes using carbenes

Z Liu, P Sivaguru, Y Ning, Y Wu… - Chemistry–A European …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract (Hetero) arenes continue to prove their indispensability in pharmaceuticals,
materials science, and synthetic chemistry. As such, the controllable modification of …

C–C bond cleavages of cyclopropenes: operating for selective ring-opening reactions

R Vicente - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
This review highlights key reactivities relying on C–C bond cleavages of cyclopropenes.
Metal-catalyzed and metal-free transformations are covered in reactions involving direct ring …

Cycloaddition reactions of enoldiazo compounds

QQ Cheng, Y Deng, M Lankelma… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Enoldiazo esters and amides have proven to be versatile reagents for cycloaddition
reactions that allow highly efficient construction of various carbocycles and heterocycles …

Simultaneous dual Cu/Ir catalysis: stereodivergent synthesis of chiral β-lactams with adjacent tertiary/quaternary/tertiary stereocenters

J Qi, T Song, Z Yang, S Sun, CH Tung, Z Xu - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
A stereodivergent synthesis of chiral β-lactams with contiguous tertiary/quaternary/tertiary
stereocenters has been achieved by a Cu/Ir-catalyzed three-component interrupted …

The modern face of synthetic heterocyclic chemistry

C Cabrele, O Reiser - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of heterocycles is arguably one of the oldest and at the same time one of the
youngest disciplines of organic chemistry. Groundbreaking principles to form heterocycles …

Ultrafast chiral separations for high throughput enantiopurity analysis

CL Barhate, LA Joyce, AA Makarov… - Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent developments in fast chromatographic enantioseparations now make high
throughput analysis of enantiopurity on the order of a few seconds achievable …

Recent advances in β-lactam synthesis

S Hosseyni, A Jarrahpour - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
During the past century, β-lactams have been identified as the core of penicillin and since
then several strategies have been developed for their synthesis. Traditional methods for β …

Synthesis of Chiral β‐Lactams by Pd‐Catalyzed Enantioselective Amidation of Methylene C(sp3)–H Bonds

T Zhou, MX Jiang, X Yang, Q Yue… - Chinese Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Summary of main observation and conclusion A Pd (II)‐catalyzed enantioselective
intramolecular amidation of both benzylic and unbiased methylene C (sp3)− H bonds for the …

Copper-catalyzed divergent addition reactions of enoldiazoacetamides with nitrones

QQ Cheng, J Yedoyan, H Arman… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Catalyst-controlled divergent addition reactions of enoldiazoacetamides with nitrones have
been developed. By using copper (I) tetrafluoroborate/bisoxazoline complex as the catalyst …