Organic synthesis with the most abundant transition metal–iron: from rust to multitasking catalysts

S Rana, JP Biswas, S Paul, A Paik… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In industries and academic laboratories, several late transition metal-catalyzed prerequisite
reactions are widely performed during single and multistep synthesis. However, besides the …

Iron catalysis in organic synthesis

I Bauer, HJ Knölker - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The present review “Iron Catalysis in Organic Synthesis” covers the literature until the end of
June 2014 and represents a comprehensive update of a previous article published by Bolm …

Use of bromine and bromo-organic compounds in organic synthesis

I Saikia, AJ Borah, P Phukan - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Bromination is one of the most important transformations in organic synthesis and can be
carried out using bromine and many other bromo compounds. Use of molecular bromine in …

Direct C− H transformation via iron catalysis

CL Sun, BJ Li, ZJ Shi - Chemical Reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
The development and application of efficient, convenient, selective, and environmentally
benign synthetic methods is highly desirable in organic chemistry. With this requirement …

Enantioselective enzyme-catalyzed aziridination enabled by active-site evolution of a cytochrome P450

CC Farwell, RK Zhang, JA McIntosh, TK Hyster… - ACS central …, 2015 - ACS Publications
One of the greatest challenges in protein design is creating new enzymes, something
evolution does all the time, starting from existing ones. Borrowing from nature's evolutionary …

Terminal nitrido and imido complexes of the late transition metals

JF Berry - Comments on Inorganic Chemistry, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Compounds that contain a late transition metal-nitrogen multiple bond represent important
reactive intermediate species in many useful organic and inorganic transformations. In order …

Recent development of porous porphyrin‐based nanomaterials for photocatalysis

L Jin, S Lv, Y Miao, D Liu, F Song - ChemCatChem, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Porphyrins and their derivatives are abundant in nature and play an important role in plant
photosynthesis. To mimic the photosynthetic reactions in plants, researchers have …

Enantioselective aminohydroxylation of styrenyl olefins catalyzed by an engineered hemoprotein

I Cho, CK Prier, ZJ Jia, RK Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Chiral 1, 2‐amino alcohols are widely represented in biologically active compounds
from neurotransmitters to antivirals. While many synthetic methods have been developed for …

Fe-Catalyzed C(sp3)–H Diversification toward γ-Functionalized Amides via Iron Nitrenoid: Mechanistic Insights and Applications

Y Wan, E Ramírez, A Ford, V Bustamante, G Li - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Access to γ-functionalized amides represents a challenge in organic synthesis. The recent
upsurge of biomimetic metal nitrenoid-mediated C–H functionalization offers a method for …

Direct Catalytic Synthesis of Unprotected 2‐Amino‐1‐Phenylethanols from Alkenes by Using Iron (II) Phthalocyanine

L Legnani, B Morandi - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aryl‐substituted amino alcohols are privileged scaffolds in medicinal chemistry and natural
products. Herein, we report that an exceptionally simple and inexpensive FeII complex …