Organic synthesis using nitroxides

D Leifert, A Studer - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nitroxides, also known as nitroxyl radicals, are long-lived or stable radicals with the general
structure R1R2N–O•. The spin distribution over the nitroxide N and O atoms contributes to …

A tutorial on asymmetric electrocatalysis

J Rein, SB Zacate, K Mao, S Lin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrochemistry has emerged as a powerful means to enable redox transformations in
modern chemical synthesis. This tutorial review delves into the unique advantages of …

Surface Defect-Induced Specific Catalysis Activates 100% Selective Sensing toward Amine Gases at Room Temperature

W Wang, T Huang, Z Cao, X Zhu, Y Sun, F Dong - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Achieving selective sensing toward target volatile organic compound gases is of vital
importance in the fields of air quality assessment, food freshness evaluation, and diagnosis …

Identifying general reaction conditions by bandit optimization

JY Wang, JM Stevens, SK Kariofillis, MJ Tom… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Reaction conditions that are generally applicable to a wide variety of substrates are highly
desired, especially in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries,,,,–. Although many …

Oxoammonium-Catalyzed Oxidation of N-Substituted Amines

J Rein, B Górski, Y Cheng, Z Lei… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We report the development of oxoammonium-catalyzed oxidation of N-substituted amines
via a hydride transfer mechanism. Steric and electronic tuning of catalyst led to …

Predicting success in Cu-catalyzed C–N coupling reactions using data science

MH Samha, LJ Karas, DB Vogt, EC Odogwu… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Data science is assuming a pivotal role in guiding reaction optimization and streamlining
experimental workloads in the evolving landscape of synthetic chemistry. A discipline-wide …

Cu (I)-catalyzed chemo-and enantioselective desymmetrizing C–O bond coupling of acyl radicals

ZL Yu, YF Cheng, JR Liu, W Yang, DT Xu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal-catalyzed enantioselective functionalization of acyl radicals has so far not
been realized, probably due to their relatively high reactivity, which renders the chemo-and …

Generality-Driven Catalyst Development: A Universal Catalyst for Enantioselective Nitroalkene Reduction

Z Deng, MA Padalino, JEL Jan, S Park… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cracking the selectivity–generality paradox is among the most pressing challenges in
asymmetric catalysis. This obstacle prevents the immediate and successful translation of …

Standardizing Substrate Selection: A Strategy toward Unbiased Evaluation of Reaction Generality

D Rana, PM Pflüger, NP Hölter, G Tan… - ACS Central …, 2024 - ACS Publications
With over 10,000 new reaction protocols arising every year, only a handful of these
procedures transition from academia to application. A major reason for this gap stems from …

Oxoammonium-Catalyzed Ether Oxidation via Hydride Abstraction: Methodology Development and Mechanistic Investigation Using Paramagnetic Relaxation …

Y Cheng, J Rein, N Le, S Lin - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hydride abstraction represents a promising yet underexplored approach in the
functionalization of C–H bonds. In this work, we report the oxidation of α-C–H bonds of …