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 …

New amination strategies based on nitrogen-centered radical chemistry

T Xiong, Q Zhang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The interesting and diverse biological activities of nitrogen-containing compounds make the
construction of the C–N bond of great importance. Despite the tremendous advances that …

Recent developments in the difunctionalization of alkenes with C–N bond formation

X Chen, F Xiao, WM He - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The difunctionalization of carbon–carbon double bonds, introducing two novel functional
groups onto both sides of the carbon–carbon bond in one pot, has become more and more …

Bifunctional sulfilimines enable synthesis of multiple N-heterocycles from alkenes

Q Cheng, Z Bai, S Tewari, T Ritter - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Intramolecular cyclization of nitrogen-containing molecules onto pendant alkenes is an
efficient strategy for the construction of N-heterocycles, which are of paramount importance …

Regiodivergent electrophotocatalytic aminooxygenation of aryl olefins

H Huang, TH Lambert - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
A method for the regiodivergent aminooxygenation of aryl olefins under electrophotocatalytic
conditions is described. The procedure employs a trisaminocyclopropenium (TAC) ion …

Triiodide‐Mediated δ‐Amination of Secondary C− H Bonds

EA Wappes, SC Fosu, TC Chopko… - Angewandte …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Cδ− H amination of unactivated, secondary C− H bonds to form a broad range of
functionalized pyrrolidines has been developed by a triiodide (I3−)‐mediated strategy. By in …

Versatile enantioselective synthesis of functionalized lactones via copper-catalyzed radical oxyfunctionalization of alkenes

R Zhu, SL Buchwald - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015 - ACS Publications
A versatile method for the rapid synthesis of diverse enantiomerically enriched lactones has
been developed based on Cu-catalyzed enantioselective radical oxyfunctionalization of …

Mn-catalyzed highly efficient aerobic oxidative hydroxyazidation of olefins: a direct approach to β-azido alcohols

X Sun, X Li, S Song, Y Zhu, YF Liang… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
An efficient Mn-catalyzed aerobic oxidative hydroxyazidation of olefins for synthesis of β-
azido alcohols has been developed. The aerobic oxidative generation of azido radical …

Electrochemical Azidooxygenation of Alkenes Mediated by a TEMPO–N3 Charge-Transfer Complex

JC Siu, GS Sauer, A Saha, RL Macey… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We report a mild and efficient electrochemical protocol to access a variety of vicinally C–O
and C–N difunctionalized compounds from simple alkenes. Detailed mechanistic studies …

Decarboxylative 1, 4-carbocyanation of 1, 3-enynes to access tetra-substituted allenes via copper/photoredox dual catalysis

Y Chen, J Wang, Y Lu - Chemical science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We disclose herein the first example of merging photoredox catalysis and copper catalysis
for radical 1, 4-carbocyanations of 1, 3-enynes. Alkyl N-hydroxyphthalimide esters are …