Nickel chain-walking catalysis: a journey to migratory carboboration of alkenes

Y Li, G Yin - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Chain-walking offers extensive opportunities for innovating synthetic methods
that involve constructing chemical bonds at unconventional sites. This approach provides …

Recent Advances in Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni-Catalyzed Organic Reactions

LJ Li, Y He, Y Yang, J Guo, Z Lu, C Wang… - CCS …, 2024 - chinesechemsoc.org
This paper reviewed the recent research progress of organic reactions catalyzed by four
typical earth-abundant and 3d metal catalysts: Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni complexes and mainly …

Difunctionalization of alkenes involving metal migration

Y Li, D Wu, HG Cheng, G Yin - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The direct difunctionalization of alkenes, a cheap and abundant feedstock, represents one of
the most attractive strategies for increasing molecular complexity in synthetic organic …

Nickel‐Catalyzed Electrochemical Reductive Relay Cross‐Coupling of Alkyl Halides to Aryl Halides

KJ Jiao, D Liu, HX Ma, H Qiu, P Fang… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A highly regioselective Ni‐catalyzed electrochemical reductive relay cross‐coupling
between an aryl halide and an alkyl halide has been developed in an undivided cell …

Catalysis with diboron (4)/pyridine: application to the broad-scope [3+ 2] cycloaddition of cyclopropanes and alkenes

Z Ding, Z Liu, Z Wang, T Yu, M Xu, J Wen… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In contrast to the extensive but non-recyclable use of tetraalkoxydiboron (4) compounds as
stoichiometric reagents in diverse reactions, this article reports an atom-economical reaction …

Ligand‐Controlled NiH‐Catalyzed Regiodivergent Chain‐Walking Hydroalkylation of Alkenes

L Zhao, Y Zhu, M Liu, L Xie, J Liang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A NiH‐catalyzed migratory hydroalkylation of alkenyl amines with predictable and
switchable regioselectivity is reported. By utilizing a ligand‐controlled, directing group …

γ-Selective C(sp3)–H amination via controlled migratory hydroamination

C Lee, H Seo, J Jeon, S Hong - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Remote functionalization of alkenes via chain walking has generally been limited to C (sp3)–
H bonds α and β to polar-functional units, while γ-C (sp3)–H functionalization through …

Walking metals: catalytic difunctionalization of alkenes at nonclassical sites

RK Dhungana, RR Sapkota, D Niroula, R Giri - Chemical science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Migration of metals along a carbon chain is triggered by two of the most common
organometallic elementary steps–β-hydride (β-H) elimination and alkene hydrometallation …

Catalyst-controlled enantioselective 1, 1-arylboration of unactivated olefins

W Wang, C Ding, G Yin - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Enantioselective difunctionalization of alkenes constitutes an efficient strategy to assemble
complex chiral molecules from simple racemic or achiral starting materials. Here we present …

Enantioselective deaminative alkylation of amino acid derivatives with unactivated olefins

SZ Sun, YM Cai, DL Zhang, JB Wang… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report the first Ni-catalyzed enantioselective deaminative alkylation of amino acid
and peptide derivatives with unactivated olefins. Key for success was the discovery of a new …