Late-stage difluoromethylation: concepts, developments and perspective

JBI Sap, CF Meyer, NJW Straathof… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
This review describes the recent advances made in difluoromethylation processes based on
X–CF2H bond formation where X is C (sp), C (sp2), C (sp3), O, N or S, a field of research …

Carbon–Carbon Bond Cleavage for Late-Stage Functionalization

YF Liang, M Bilal, LY Tang, TZ Wang, YQ Guan… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Late-stage functionalization (LSF) introduces functional group or structural modification at
the final stage of the synthesis of natural products, drugs, and complex compounds. It is …

Selected Copper‐Based Reactions for C− N, C− O, C− S, and C− C Bond Formation

S Bhunia, GG Pawar, SV Kumar… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Metal‐catalyzed cross‐coupling reactions belong to the most important transformations in
organic synthesis. Copper catalysis has received great attention owing to the low toxicity …

Good partnership between sulfur and fluorine: sulfur-based fluorination and fluoroalkylation reagents for organic synthesis

C Ni, M Hu, J Hu - Chemical Reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Fluorine, often called as “a small atom with a big ego”, 1 lies in the second row and the 17th
column in the periodic table of the chemical elements. This unique position in the periodic …

Organoboron Reagent‐Controlled Selective (Deutero) Hydrodefluorination

ZJ Shen, C Zhu, X Zhang, C Yang… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract (Deuterium‐labeled) CF2H‐and CFH2‐moieties are of high interest in drug
discovery. The high demand for the incorporation of these fluoroalkyl moieties into molecular …

Introduction of fluorine and fluorine‐containing functional groups

T Liang, CN Neumann, T Ritter - … Chemie International Edition, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decade, the most significant, conceptual advances in the field of fluorination
were enabled most prominently by organo‐and transition‐metal catalysis. The most …

Selective C–F functionalization of unactivated trifluoromethylarenes

DB Vogt, CP Seath, H Wang, NT Jui - Journal of the American …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Fluorinated organic molecules are pervasive within the pharmaceutical and agrochemical
industries due to the range of structural and physicochemical properties that fluorine imparts …

Profound Methyl Effects in Drug Discovery and a Call for New C H Methylation Reactions

H Schönherr, T Cernak - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The methyl group is one of the most commonly occurring carbon fragments in small‐
molecule drugs. This simplest alkyl fragment appears in more than 67% of the top‐selling …

Reductive catalytic difluorocarbene transfer via palladium catalysis

XY Zhang, SP Sun, YQ Sang, XS Xue… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A palladium‐catalyzed reductive difluorocarbene transfer reaction that tames
difluorocarbene to couple with two electrophiles has been developed, representing a new …

Recent Progress toward the Introduction of Functionalized Difluoromethylated Building Blocks onto C(sp2) and C(sp) Centers

MC Belhomme, T Besset, T Poisson… - … A European Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorine chemistry is a field undergoing tremendous expansion. Although much attention
has been paid to the introduction of the fluorine atom and the CF3 group, less interest has …