Divergent gold catalysis: unlocking molecular diversity through catalyst control

CC Chintawar, AK Yadav, A Kumar… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The catalyst-directed divergent synthesis, commonly termed as “divergent catalysis”, has
emerged as a promising technique as it allows chartering of structurally distinct products …

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 …

Skeletal editing through direct nitrogen deletion of secondary amines

SH Kennedy, BD Dherange, KJ Berger, MD Levin - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Synthetic chemistry aims to build up molecular complexity from simple feedstocks. However,
the ability to exert precise changes that manipulate the connectivity of the molecular …

Molecular editing of aza-arene C–H bonds by distance, geometry and chirality

Z Fan, X Chen, K Tanaka, HS Park, NYS Lam, JJ Wong… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Direct molecular editing of heteroarene carbon–hydrogen (C–H) bonds through consecutive
selective C–H functionalization has the potential to grant rapid access into diverse chemical …

Modulators of protein–protein interactions

LG Milroy, TN Grossmann, S Hennig… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Since Hedin's characterization of trypsin and antitrypsin in 1906,(1) arguably the first
account of a regulatory protein–protein interaction (PPI), contemporary understanding of …

Carbon atom insertion into pyrroles and indoles promoted by chlorodiazirines

BD Dherange, PQ Kelly, JP Liles… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report a reaction that selectively generates 3-arylpyridine and quinoline motifs by
inserting aryl carbynyl cation equivalents into pyrrole and indole cores, respectively. By …

Structural simplification of natural products

S Wang, G Dong, C Sheng - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Natural products (NPs) are important sources of clinical drugs due to their structural diversity
and biological prevalidation. However, the structural complexity of NPs leads to synthetic …

Alkyne metathesis on the rise

A Fürstner - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The early years of alkyne metathesis were marked by a somewhat ironic state of affairs: the
proposed mechanism was swiftly validated and more than one effective catalyst became …

Toward the generation of 2-amino-3-formyl difunctionalized chromones via Pd-enabled rearrangement strategy

Q Tong, RF Xiu, JH Chen, Y Zhang, BD Cui… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Accomplished herein is a rearrangement strategy for the highly efficient assembly of
synthetically cumbersome while medicinally significant 2-amino-3-formyl chromones via …

Natom deletion in nitrogen heterocycles

H Qin, W Cai, S Wang, T Guo, G Li… - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Excising the nitrogen in secondary amines, and coupling the two residual fragments is a
skeletal editing strategy that can be used to construct molecules with new skeletons, but …