NiH-catalyzed functionalization of remote and proximal olefins: new reactions and innovative strategies

Y Wang, Y He, S Zhu - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Transition metal hydride catalyzed functionalization of remote and proximal
olefins has many advantages over conventional cross-coupling reactions. It avoids the …

Streamlined alkylation via nickel-hydride-catalyzed hydrocarbonation of alkenes

Z Zhang, S Bera, C Fan, X Hu - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Compounds rich in sp3-hybridized carbons are desirable in drug discovery. Nickel-
catalyzed hydrocarbonation of alkenes is a potentially efficient method to synthesize these …

Expanding the medicinal chemistry synthetic toolbox

J Boström, DG Brown, RJ Young… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
The key objectives of medicinal chemistry are to efficiently design and synthesize bioactive
compounds that have the potential to become safe and efficacious drugs. Most medicinal …

Electroreductive carbofunctionalization of alkenes with alkyl bromides via a radical-polar crossover mechanism

W Zhang, S Lin - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020 - ACS Publications
Electrochemistry grants direct access to reactive intermediates (radicals and ions) in a
controlled fashion toward selective organic transformations. This feature has been …

Recent advances in hydrometallation of alkenes and alkynes via the first row transition metal catalysis

J Chen, J Guo, Z Lu - Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrometallation of alkenes and alkynes provides a straightforward route to access alkyl‐or
alkenyl‐metal reagents, which have a wide range of applications in organic transformations …

Recent Advances in Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni-Catalyzed Organic Reactions

LJ Li, Y He, Y Yang, J Guo, Z Lu, C Wang… - CCS …, 2024 - chinesechemsoc.org
This paper reviewed the recent research progress of organic reactions catalyzed by four
typical earth-abundant and 3d metal catalysts: Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni complexes and mainly …

Nickel-catalyzed remote asymmetric hydroalkylation of alkenyl ethers to access ethers of chiral dialkyl carbinols

JW Wang, Z Li, D Liu, JY Zhang, X Lu… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Site-and enantio-selective alkyl–alkyl bond formation is privileged in the retrosynthetic
analysis due to the universality of sp3-hybridized carbon atoms in organic molecules …

Catalytic enantioconvergent coupling of secondary and tertiary electrophiles with olefins

Z Wang, H Yin, GC Fu - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Carbon–carbon bonds, including those between sp 3-hybridized carbon atoms (alkyl–alkyl
bonds), typically comprise much of the framework of organic molecules. In the case of sp 3 …

Catalytic asymmetric reductive hydroalkylation of enamides and enecarbamates to chiral aliphatic amines

JW Wang, Y Li, W Nie, Z Chang, ZA Yu, YF Zhao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
To increase the reliability and success rate of drug discovery, efforts have been made to
increase the C (sp 3) fraction and avoid flat molecules. sp 3-Rich enantiopure amines are …

Cobalt-catalysed enantioselective C(sp3)–C(sp3) coupling

Y Li, W Nie, Z Chang, JW Wang, X Lu, Y Fu - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Enantioselective C (sp 3)–C (sp 3) coupling substantially impacts organic synthesis
but remains challenging. Cobalt has played an important role in the development of …