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 …

A fruitful decade of organofluorine chemistry: new reagents and reactions

FL Qing, XY Liu, JA Ma, Q Shen, Q Song… - CCS …, 2022 - chinesechemsoc.org
The development of synthetic methods for the introduction of the fluorine atom and
fluoroalklyl groups into organic molecules has gained increased attention. Synthetic organic …

Photoelectrochemical asymmetric catalysis enables site-and enantioselective cyanation of benzylic C–H bonds

CY Cai, XL Lai, Y Wang, HH Hu, J Song, Y Yang… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The enantioselective functionalization of ubiquitous C (sp 3)–H bonds is ideally suited for
the construction of three-dimensional chiral structures. However, organic molecules often …

Iron (III)-based metalloradical catalysis for asymmetric cyclopropanation via a stepwise radical mechanism

WCC Lee, DS Wang, Y Zhu, XP Zhang - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Metalloradical catalysis (MRC) exploits the metal-centred radicals present in open-shell
metal complexes as one-electron catalysts for the generation of metal-stabilized organic …

Catalytic three-component dicarbofunctionalization reactions involving radical capture by nickel

S Zhu, X Zhao, H Li, L Chu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The catalytic dicarbofunctionalization of unsaturated π bonds represents a powerful platform
for the rapid construction of complex motifs. Despite remarkable progress, novel and efficient …

Copper-photocatalyzed ATRA reactions: concepts, applications, and opportunities

S Engl, O Reiser - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Atom transfer radical addition (ATRA) reactions are linchpin transformations in synthetic
chemistry enabling the atom-economic difunctionalization of alkenes. Thereby a rich …

Photoinduced copper-catalyzed enantioselective coupling reactions

L Song, L Cai, L Gong… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Copper-catalyzed enantioselective coupling has been widely investigated, which allows
rapid construction of various chiral molecules. Despite important advances via polar and …

Mechanism-based ligand design for copper-catalysed enantioconvergent C(sp3)–C(sp) cross-coupling of tertiary electrophiles with alkynes

FL Wang, CJ Yang, JR Liu, NY Yang, XY Dong… - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
In contrast with the well-established enantioconvergent radical C (sp 3)–C cross-coupling of
racemic secondary alkyl electrophiles, the corresponding coupling of tertiary electrophiles to …

Electronic control over site-selectivity in hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) based C (sp 3)–H functionalization promoted by electrophilic reagents

M Galeotti, M Salamone, M Bietti - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The direct functionalization of C (sp3)–H bonds represents one of the most investigated
approaches to develop new synthetic methodology. Among the available strategies for …

Progresses in organocatalytic asymmetric dearomatization reactions of indole derivatives

FT Sheng, JY Wang, W Tan, YC Zhang… - Organic Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Chiral indole derivatives such as indolines and indolenines are important heterocyclic
frameworks which constitute the core structures of many natural products and bioactive …