Recent advances in chemical dearomatization of nonactivated arenes

WC Wertjes, EH Southgate, D Sarlah - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Dearomatization reactions provide a synthetic connection between readily available, simple
aromatic starting materials and more saturated intermediates of greater molecular …

Further developments and applications of oxazoline-containing ligands in asymmetric catalysis

R Connon, B Roche, BV Rokade, PJ Guiry - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
The chiral oxazoline motif is present in many ligands that have been extensively applied in a
series of important metal-catalyzed enantioselective reactions. This Review aims to provide …

Selective arene hydrogenation for direct access to saturated carbo‐and heterocycles

MP Wiesenfeldt, Z Nairoukh, T Dalton… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Arene hydrogenation provides direct access to saturated carbo‐and heterocycles and thus
its strategic application may be used to shorten synthetic routes. This powerful …

P, N Ligand in Ni-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions: A Promising Tool for π-Functionalization

J Bae, EJ Cho - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bidentate P, N ligands, integrating phosphine and nitrogen donors, are highlighted for their
versatile characteristics, offering both electronic and steric tunability. Their hemilabile nature …

Visible-light-driven organic photochemical reactions in the absence of external photocatalysts

Y Wei, QQ Zhou, F Tan, LQ Lu, WJ Xiao - Synthesis, 2019 - thieme-connect.com
Visible-light-driven organic photochemical reactions have attracted substantial attention
from the synthetic community. Typically, catalytic quantities of photosensitizers, such as …

Asymmetric intramolecular dearomatization of nonactivated arenes with ynamides for rapid assembly of fused ring system under silver catalysis

T Ito, S Harada, H Homma, H Takenaka… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Arene dearomatization is a straightforward method for converting an aromatic feedstock into
functionalized carbocycles. Enantioselective dearomatizations of chemically inert arenes …

Organocatalytic asymmetric dearomatizing hetero-Diels–Alder reaction of nonactivated arenes

K Li, S Huang, T Liu, S Jia, H Yan - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nonactivated arenes, such as benzene derivatives, are chemically inert due to their intrinsic
aromaticity and low polarity. The catalytic asymmetric dearomatization (CADA, coined by …

Formation of Isolable Dearomatized [4 + 2] Cycloadducts from Benzenes, Naphthalenes, and N-Heterocycles Using 1,2-Dihydro-1,2,4,5-tetrazine-3,6-diones as …

K Ikeda, R Kojima, K Kawai, T Murakami… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report that the dearomative [4+ 2] cycloaddition between 1, 2-dihydro-1, 2, 4, 5-tetrazine-
3, 6-diones (TETRADs) and benzenes, naphthalenes, or N-heteroaromatic compounds …

Catalytic asymmetric transformations of oxa-and azabicyclic alkenes

SV Kumar, A Yen, M Lautens, PJ Guiry - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Oxa-and azabicyclic alkenes can be readily activated by transition-metal complexes with
facial selectivity, because of the intrinsic reactivity of strained bicyclic structures …

Visible‐light‐induced dearomatizations

M Okumura, D Sarlah - European journal of organic chemistry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The dearomatization of aromatic compounds is an important synthetic strategy used in
accessing complex three‐dimensional structures from simple aromatic precursors. This …