Metal-Catalyzed Enantioconvergent Transformations

M Yus, C Nájera, F Foubelo, JM Sansano - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Enantioconvergent catalysis has expanded asymmetric synthesis to new methodologies
able to convert racemic compounds into a single enantiomer. This review covers recent …

Methods and Mechanisms for Cross-Electrophile Coupling of Csp2 Halides with Alkyl Electrophiles

DJ Weix - Accounts of chemical research, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Cross-electrophile coupling, the cross-coupling of two different electrophiles,
avoids the need for preformed carbon nucleophiles, but development of general methods …

Ni-electrocatalytic Csp3–Csp3 doubly decarboxylative coupling

B Zhang, Y Gao, Y Hioki, MS Oderinde, JX Qiao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Cross-coupling between two similar or identical functional groups to form a new C–C bond
is a powerful tool to rapidly assemble complex molecules from readily available building …

Nickel-catalyzed enantioselective reductive cross-coupling reactions

KE Poremba, SE Dibrell, SE Reisman - ACS catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nickel-catalyzed reductive cross-coupling reactions have emerged as powerful methods to
join two electrophiles. These reactions have proven particularly useful for the coupling of sec …

Enantioselective Csp3-Csp3 formation by nickel-catalyzed enantioconvergent cross-electrophile alkyl-alkyl coupling of unactivated alkyl halides

WT Zhao, W Shu - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
The pervasive occurrence of saturated stereogenic carbon centers in pharmaceuticals,
agrochemicals, functional organic materials, and natural products has stimulated great …

Monovalent nickel-mediated radical formation: a concerted halogen-atom dissociation pathway determined by electroanalytical studies

Q Lin, Y Fu, P Liu, T Diao - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The recent success of nickel catalysts in stereoconvergent cross-coupling and cross-
electrophile coupling reactions partly stems from the ability of monovalent nickel species to …

Electrochemical NiH‐Catalyzed C(sp3)−C(sp3) Coupling of Alkyl Halides and Alkyl Alkenes

P Li, G Kou, T Feng, M Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, an electrochemically driven NiH‐catalyzed reductive coupling of alkyl halides and
alkyl alkenes for the construction of Csp3− Csp3 bonds is firstly reported. Notably, alkyl …

Ni-catalyzed enantioselective reductive diarylation of activated alkenes by domino cyclization/cross-coupling

K Wang, Z Ding, Z Zhou, W Kong - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A Ni-catalyzed enantioselective reductive diarylation of activated alkenes by domino
cyclizative/cross-coupling of two aryl bromides is developed. This reaction proceeds under …

Nickel-catalyzed reductive coupling of alkyl halides with other electrophiles: concept and mechanistic considerations

J Gu, X Wang, W Xue, H Gong - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The formation of C–C bonds directly by catalytic reductive cross-coupling of two different
electrophiles represents one of the practical synthetic protocols that differs from the …

Cross-electrophile coupling: principles of reactivity and selectivity

DA Everson, DJ Weix - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
A critical overview of the catalytic joining of two different electrophiles, cross-electrophile
coupling (XEC), is presented with an emphasis on the central challenge of cross-selectivity …