Recent advances in nickel-catalyzed reductive hydroalkylation and hydroarylation of electronically unbiased alkenes

XX Wang, X Lu, Y Li, JW Wang, Y Fu - Science China Chemistry, 2020 - Springer
The use of simple and easily available feedstock to quickly and efficiently obtain compounds
with complex molecular structures through the transition-metal-catalyzed construction of C …

Asymmetric hydrofunctionalization of minimally functionalized alkenes via earth abundant transition metal catalysis

J Chen, Z Lu - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, earth-abundant transition metal catalysts have been used to make great
achievements on homogenous catalysis, including the field of enantioselective …

Mild and regioselective benzylic C–H functionalization: Ni-catalyzed reductive arylation of remote and proximal olefins

Y He, Y Cai, S Zhu - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017 - ACS Publications
The synergistic combination of NiH-catalyzed alkene isomerization with nickel-catalyzed
cross-coupling has yielded a general protocol for the synthesis of a wide range of …

Iron-mediated modular decarboxylative cross-nucleophile coupling

GA Lutovsky, SN Gockel, MW Bundesmann… - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
Carboxylic acids are valuable building blocks for pharmaceutical discovery because of their
chemical stability, commercial availability, and structural diversity. Decarboxylative coupling …

Stereospecific nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of benzylic ethers and esters

EJ Tollefson, LE Hanna, ER Jarvo - Accounts of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus This Account presents the development of a suite of stereospecific alkyl–alkyl
cross-coupling reactions employing nickel catalysts. Our reactions complement related …

Nickel‐catalyzed chain‐walking cross‐electrophile coupling of alkyl and aryl halides and olefin hydroarylation enabled by electrochemical reduction

GS Kumar, A Peshkov, A Brzozowska… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The first electrochemical approach for nickel‐catalyzed cross‐electrophile coupling was
developed. This method provides a novel route to 1, 1‐diarylalkane derivatives from simple …

Organocatalytic asymmetric synthesis of 1, 1-diarylethanes by transfer hydrogenation

Z Wang, F Ai, Z Wang, W Zhao, G Zhu… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A new organocatalytic transfer hydrogenation strategy for the asymmetric synthesis of 1, 1-
diarylethanes is described. Under mild conditions, a range of 1, 1-diarylethanes substituted …

Synthetic methodologies of achiral diarylmethanols, diaryl and triarylmethanes (TRAMs) and medicinal properties of diaryl and triarylmethanes-an overview

S Mondal, G Panda - RSC Advances, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The last decade has witnessed a high demand of various synthetic approaches towards
bioactive achiral diarylmethanols, diaryl and triarylmethanes and the molecules derived …

Nickel-catalyzed enantioselective hydroarylation and hydroalkenylation of styrenes

YG Chen, B Shuai, XT Xu, YQ Li, QL Yang… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We have developed a Ni-catalyzed enantioselective hydroarylation of styrenes with
arylboronic acids using MeOH as the hydrogen source, providing an efficient method to …

Nickel-catalyzed cross couplings of benzylic ammonium salts and boronic acids: stereospecific formation of diarylethanes via C–N bond activation

P Maity, DM Shacklady-McAtee, GPA Yap… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We have developed a nickel-catalyzed cross coupling of benzylic ammonium triflates with
aryl boronic acids to afford diarylmethanes and diarylethanes. This reaction proceeds under …