Hydration reactions catalyzed by transition metal–NHC (NHC= N-heterocyclic carbene) complexes

P Gao, M Szostak - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The catalytic addition of water to unsaturated C–C or C–N π bonds represent one of the
most important and environmentally sustainable methods to form C–O bonds for the …

Recent advances in pincer–nickel catalyzed reactions

V Arora, H Narjinari, PG Nandi, A Kumar - Dalton Transactions, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Organometallic catalysts have played a key role in accomplishing numerous synthetically
valuable organic transformations that are either otherwise not possible or inefficient. The use …

Photocatalytic EZ Isomerization of Polarized Alkenes Inspired by the Visual Cycle: Mechanistic Dichotomy and Origin of Selectivity

JB Metternich, DG Artiukhin, MC Holland… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Iteratively executed with exquisite spatial and temporal control, the selective isomerization of
polarized alkenes underpins a plethora of complex biological processes ranging from …

Hydration of nitriles using a metal–ligand cooperative ruthenium pincer catalyst

B Guo, JG de Vries, E Otten - Chemical Science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Nitrile hydration provides access to amides that are important structural elements in organic
chemistry. Here we report catalytic nitrile hydration using ruthenium catalysts based on a …

A numbering-up metal microreactor for the high-throughput production of a commercial drug by copper catalysis

GN Ahn, T Yu, HJ Lee, KW Gyak, JH Kang, D You… - Lab on a Chip, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Microreactors are emerging as an efficient, sustainable synthetic tool compared to
conventional batch reactors. Here, we present a new numbering-up metal microreactor by …

Nanoarchitectonics of phosphorylated graphitic carbon nitride for sustainable, selective and metal-free synthesis of primary amides

P Choudhary, A Kumar, V Krishnan - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Current strategies for the synthesis of primary amides from aldehydes requires expensive
metal-based catalysts and high reaction temperature, which limits their potential …

Catalyst-free transamidation of aromatic amines with formamide derivatives and tertiary amides with aliphatic amines

J Yin, J Zhang, C Cai, GJ Deng, H Gong - Organic letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
A simple catalyst-and promoter-free protocol has been developed for the transamidation of
weakly nucleophilic aromatic amines with formamide derivatives and low-reactivity tertiary …

Cationic ruthenium (II)-CNC pincer complexes as phosphine-free catalysts for nitrile hydration to amides in aqueous medium

RK Singh, D Yadav, AK Singh - Molecular Catalysis, 2023 - Elsevier
We report the synthesis, characterization, and catalytic activity of a series of electron-rich,
phosphine-free complexes featuring multiple N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands, namely …

Metal-free nitrogen-doped carbon nanosheets: a catalyst for the direct synthesis of imines under mild conditions

K Wang, P Jiang, M Yang, P Ma, J Qin, X Huang… - Green …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein, a highly stable, porous, multifunctional and metal-free catalyst was developed,
which exhibited significant catalytic performance in the oxidation of amines and transfer …

Hydration of Nitriles Catalyzed by Ruthenium Complexes: Role of Dihydrogen Bonding Interactions in Promoting Base-Free Catalysis

S Yadav, R Gupta - Inorganic Chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ru (II) complexes of amide-phosphine-based tridentate ligands additionally containing
pyridine, isoquinoline, and quinoline rings have been synthesized, and their catalytic utility …