Metallaphotoredox: the merger of photoredox and transition metal catalysis

AY Chan, IB Perry, NB Bissonnette, BF Buksh… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The merger of photoredox catalysis with transition metal catalysis, termed
metallaphotoredox catalysis, has become a mainstay in synthetic methodology over the past …

Toolbox for distal C–H bond functionalizations in organic molecules

SK Sinha, S Guin, S Maiti, JP Biswas, S Porey… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal-catalyzed C–H activation has developed a contemporary approach to the
omnipresent area of retrosynthetic disconnection. Scientific researchers have been tempted …

Late-stage functionalization for improving drug-like molecular properties

NJ Castellino, AP Montgomery, JJ Danon… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The development of late-stage functionalization (LSF) methodologies, particularly C–H
functionalization, has revolutionized the field of organic synthesis. Over the past decade …

Advances on the merger of electrochemistry and transition metal catalysis for organic synthesis

CA Malapit, MB Prater, JR Cabrera-Pardo, M Li… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Synthetic organic electrosynthesis has grown in the past few decades by achieving many
valuable transformations for synthetic chemists. Although electrocatalysis has been popular …

Photocatalysis in the life science industry

L Candish, KD Collins, GC Cook, JJ Douglas… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In the pursuit of new pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, chemists in the life science
industry require access to mild and robust synthetic methodologies to systematically modify …

Electrochemically driven cross-electrophile coupling of alkyl halides

W Zhang, L Lu, W Zhang, Y Wang, SD Ware… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Recent research in medicinal chemistry has suggested that there is a correlation between
an increase in the fraction of sp 3 carbons—those bonded to four other atoms—in drug …

Accelerating reaction generality and mechanistic insight through additive mapping

CN Prieto Kullmer, JA Kautzky, SW Krska, T Nowak… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Reaction generality is crucial in determining the overall impact and usefulness of synthetic
methods. Typical generalization protocols require a priori mechanistic understanding and …

Transition metal (Ni, Cu, Pd)-catalyzed alkene dicarbofunctionalization reactions

LM Wickham, R Giri - Accounts of chemical research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Recently, alkene dicarbofunctionalization, ie, the powerful organic synthesis
method of alkene difunctionalization with two carbon sources, emerged as a formidable …

Nickel-catalyzed enantioselective electrochemical reductive cross-coupling of aryl aziridines with alkenyl bromides

X Hu, I Cheng-Sánchez… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
An electrochemically driven nickel-catalyzed enantioselective reductive cross-coupling of
aryl aziridines with alkenyl bromides has been developed, affording enantioenriched β-aryl …

Nickel Catalysis via SH2 Homolytic Substitution: The Double Decarboxylative Cross-Coupling of Aliphatic Acids

AV Tsymbal, LD Bizzini… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cross-coupling platforms are traditionally built around a sequence of closed-shell steps,
such as oxidative addition, transmetalation, and reductive elimination. Herein, we describe a …