Enantioselective radical reactions using chiral catalysts

S Mondal, F Dumur, D Gigmes, MP Sibi… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Benefiting from the impressive increase in fundamental knowledge, the last 20 years have
shown a continuous burst of new ideas and consequently a plethora of new catalytic …

Photochemical and electrochemical applications of proton-coupled electron transfer in organic synthesis

PRD Murray, JH Cox, ND Chiappini, CB Roos… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We present here a review of the photochemical and electrochemical applications of multi-
site proton-coupled electron transfer (MS-PCET) in organic synthesis. MS-PCETs are redox …

Multiplicative enhancement of stereoenrichment by a single catalyst for deracemization of alcohols

L Wen, J Ding, L Duan, S Wang, Q An, H Wang, Z Zuo - Science, 2023 - science.org
Stereochemical enrichment of a racemic mixture by deracemization must overcome
unfavorable entropic effects as well as the principle of microscopic reversibility; recently …

Titanium catalysis for the synthesis of fine chemicals–development and trends

M Manßen, LL Schafer - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Titanium is the second most abundant transition metal and is already a key player in
important industrial processes (eg polyethylene). Titanium is an attractive metal to use for …

Ketone–olefin coupling of aliphatic and aromatic carbonyls catalyzed by excited-state acridine radicals

NJ Venditto, YS Liang, RK El Mokadem… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ketone–olefin coupling reactions are common methods for the formation of carbon–carbon
bonds. This reaction class typically requires stoichiometric or super stoichiometric quantities …

Electroreductive olefin–ketone coupling

P Hu, BK Peters, CA Malapit… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A user-friendly approach is presented to sidestep the venerable Grignard addition to
unactivated ketones to access tertiary alcohols by reversing the polarity of the disconnection …

Direct and Selective Electrocarboxylation of Styrene Oxides with CO2 for Accessing β‐Hydroxy Acids

K Zhang, BH Ren, XF Liu, LL Wang… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Highly selective and direct electroreductive ring‐opening carboxylation of epoxides with
CO2 in an undivided cell is reported. This reaction shows broad substrate scopes within …

Reductive deoxygenative functionalization of alcohols by first‐row transition metal catalysis

X Pang, XZ Shu - Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehensive Summary Alcohols are among the most accessible functionalities. Catalytic
deoxygenative functionalization of alcohols is highly synthetically appealing. While …

Photocatalytic Generation of π‐Allyltitanium Complexes via Radical Intermediates

F Li, S Lin, Y Chen, C Shi, H Yan, C Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The addition of π‐allylmetal complexes to carbonyls is the most important route to
homoallylic alcohols. This study reports the first photocatalytic generation of π‐allyltitanium …

Ti-catalyzed formal [2π+ 2σ] cycloadditions of bicyclo [1.1. 0] butanes with 2-azadienes to access aminobicyclo [2.1. 1] hexanes

H Ren, T Li, J Xing, Z Li, Y Zhang, X Yu, J Zheng - Organic Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Saturated bicyclic amines are increasingly targeted to the pharmaceutical industry as sp3-
rich bioisosteres of anilines. Numerous strategies have been established for the preparation …