New strategies for the transition-metal catalyzed synthesis of aliphatic amines

A Trowbridge, SM Walton, MJ Gaunt - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal catalyzed reactions that are able to construct complex aliphatic amines from
simple, readily available feedstocks have become a cornerstone of modern synthetic …

Organic synthesis with the most abundant transition metal–iron: from rust to multitasking catalysts

S Rana, JP Biswas, S Paul, A Paik… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In industries and academic laboratories, several late transition metal-catalyzed prerequisite
reactions are widely performed during single and multistep synthesis. However, besides the …

Reduction of nitro compounds using 3d-non-noble metal catalysts

D Formenti, F Ferretti, FK Scharnagl, M Beller - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The reduction of nitro compounds to the corresponding amines is one of the most utilized
catalytic processes in the fine and bulk chemical industry. The latest development of …

Hydroamination, Aminoboration, and Carboamination with Electrophilic Amination Reagents: Umpolung-Enabled Regio- and Stereoselective Synthesis of N …

K Hirano, M Miura - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen (N) is ubiquitously found in bioactive molecules, pharmaceutical agents, and
organic functional materials. Accordingly, development of new C–N bond-forming catalysis …

Cobalt-electrocatalytic HAT for functionalization of unsaturated C–C bonds

S Gnaim, A Bauer, HJ Zhang, L Chen, C Gannett… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The study and application of transition metal hydrides (TMHs) has been an active area of
chemical research since the early 1960s, for energy storage, through the reduction of …

Intercepting hydrogen evolution with hydrogen-atom transfer: electron-initiated hydrofunctionalization of alkenes

X Wu, CN Gannett, J Liu, R Zeng… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen-atom transfer mediated by earth-abundant transition-metal hydrides (M-Hs) has
emerged as a powerful tool in organic synthesis. Current methods to generate M-Hs most …

Nickel-catalyzed hydrogenative coupling of nitriles and amines for general amine synthesis

VG Chandrashekhar, W Baumann, M Beller… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Efficient and general methods for the synthesis of amines remain in high demand in the
chemical industry. Among the many known processes, catalytic hydrogenation is a cost …

Improving photosynthesis and crop productivity by accelerating recovery from photoprotection

J Kromdijk, K Głowacka, L Leonelli, ST Gabilly, M Iwai… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Crop leaves in full sunlight dissipate damaging excess absorbed light energy as heat. When
sunlit leaves are shaded by clouds or other leaves, this protective dissipation continues for …

CuH-catalyzed olefin functionalization: from hydroamination to carbonyl addition

RY Liu, SL Buchwald - Accounts of chemical research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus In organic synthesis, ligand-modified copper (I) hydride (CuH) complexes have
become well-known reagents and catalysts for selective reduction, particularly toward …

Iron catalysis in reduction and hydrometalation reactions

D Wei, C Darcel - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The last two decades have seen an impressive improvement of the use of iron as a
fascinating and valuable alternative transition metal in homogeneous catalysis in terms of …