Walking metals for remote functionalization

H Sommer, F Juliá-Hernández, R Martin… - ACS central …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The distant and selective activation of unreactive C–H and C–C bonds remains one of the
biggest challenges in organic chemistry. In recent years, the development of remote …

Syntheses and Transformations of α-Amino Acids via Palladium-Catalyzed Auxiliary-Directed sp3 C–H Functionalization

G He, B Wang, WA Nack, G Chen - Accounts of Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus α-Amino acids (αAA) are one of the most useful chiral building blocks for
synthesis. There are numerous general strategies that have commonly been used for αAA …

Automated iterative Csp3–C bond formation

DJ Blair, S Chitti, M Trobe, DM Kostyra, HMS Haley… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Fully automated synthetic chemistry would substantially change the field by providing broad
on-demand access to small molecules. However, the reactions that can be run …

Ligand relay catalysis enables asymmetric migratory reductive acylation of olefins or alkyl halides

X Jiang, FT Sheng, Y Zhang, G Deng… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Design of ligands in transition-metal catalyzed reactions is challenging, especially in
asymmetric transformations. With each step in the catalytic cycle promoted by its privileged …

C–H functionalization in the synthesis of amino acids and peptides

AFM Noisier, MA Brimble - Chemical Reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
In recent years, the pharmaceutical market has experienced a paradigm shift; as small
molecules had long been thought of as the ultimate therapeutics, the use of biologics …

Mild and regioselective benzylic C–H functionalization: Ni-catalyzed reductive arylation of remote and proximal olefins

Y He, Y Cai, S Zhu - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017 - ACS Publications
The synergistic combination of NiH-catalyzed alkene isomerization with nickel-catalyzed
cross-coupling has yielded a general protocol for the synthesis of a wide range of …

Remote migratory cross-electrophile coupling and olefin hydroarylation reactions enabled by in situ generation of NiH

F Chen, K Chen, Y Zhang, Y He… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
A highly efficient strategy for remote reductive cross-electrophile coupling has been
developed through the ligand-controlled nickel migration/arylation. This general protocol …

Chiral transient directing groups in transition-metal-catalyzed enantioselective C–H bond functionalization

MI Lapuh, S Mazeh, T Besset - ACS Catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal-catalyzed C–H bond functionalization has known a rapid evolution in the
last years, offering modern strategies for reaching high molecular complexity in a step-and …

Site-Selective C(sp3)–H Functionalization of Di-, Tri-, and Tetrapeptides at the N-Terminus

W Gong, G Zhang, T Liu, R Giri… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Although the syntheses of novel and diverse peptides rely mainly on traditional coupling
using unnatural amino acids, postsynthetic modification of peptides could provide a …

Nickel‐Catalyzed, Regio‐and Enantioselective Benzylic Alkenylation of Olefins with Alkenyl Bromide

J Liu, H Gong, S Zhu - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A NiH‐catalyzed migratory hydroalkenylation reaction of olefins with alkenyl bromides has
been developed, affording benzylic alkenylation products with high yields and excellent …