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 …

Undirected, homogeneous C–H bond functionalization: challenges and opportunities

JF Hartwig, MA Larsen - ACS central science, 2016 - ACS Publications
The functionalization of C–H bonds has created new approaches to preparing organic
molecules by enabling new strategic “disconnections” during the planning of a synthetic …

Dirhodium tetracarboxylates as catalysts for selective intermolecular C–H functionalization

HML Davies, K Liao - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
C–H functionalization has become widely recognized as an exciting new strategy for the
synthesis of complex molecular targets. Instead of relying on functional groups as the …

Evolution of C–H bond functionalization from methane to methodology

JF Hartwig - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016 - ACS Publications
This Perspective presents the fundamental principles, the elementary reactions, the initial
catalytic systems, and the contemporary catalysts that have converted C–H bond …

Catalytic alkylation of unactivated C (sp 3)–H bonds for C (sp 3)–C (sp 3) bond formation

Z Chen, MY Rong, J Nie, XF Zhu, BF Shi… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The construction of carbon–carbon bonds is a central tenet of modern synthetic chemistry.
Metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization can serve as a particularly powerful tool for achieving …

Catalytic enantioselective sulfur alkylation of sulfenamides for the asymmetric synthesis of sulfoximines

NS Greenwood, AT Champlin… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Sulfoximines are increasingly incorporated in agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals, with the
two enantiomers of chiral sulfoximines often having profoundly different binding interactions …

Computational studies of synthetically relevant homogeneous organometallic catalysis involving Ni, Pd, Ir, and Rh: an overview of commonly employed DFT methods …

T Sperger, IA Sanhueza, I Kalvet… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The field of organometallic catalysis has attracted considerable interest from both academia
and industry due to its broad applications in synthetic transformations. Pd, Ni, Rh, and Ir …

Transition metal catalyzed insertion reactions with donor/donor carbenes

BD Bergstrom, LA Nickerson, JT Shaw… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Donor/donor carbenes are relatively new in the field of carbene chemistry; although
applications in C− H and X− H insertion reactions are few in number, they demonstrate …

Site-selective and stereoselective functionalization of unactivated C–H bonds

K Liao, S Negretti, DG Musaev, J Bacsa, HML Davies - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The laboratory synthesis of complex organic molecules relies heavily on the introduction
and manipulation of functional groups, such as carbon–oxygen or carbon–halogen bonds; …

Guiding principles for site selective and stereoselective intermolecular C–H functionalization by donor/acceptor rhodium carbenes

HML Davies, D Morton - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
This tutorial review presents a description of the controlling elements of intermolecular C–H
functionalization by means of C–H insertion by donor/acceptor rhodium carbenes. These …