Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed carbene insertion to C–H bonds

Y He, Z Huang, K Wu, J Ma, YG Zhou… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
C–H functionalization has been emerging as a powerful method to establish carbon–carbon
and carbon–heteroatom bonds. Many efforts have been devoted to transition-metal …

Design and optimization of catalysts based on mechanistic insights derived from quantum chemical reaction modeling

S Ahn, M Hong, M Sundararajan, DH Ess… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Until recently, computational tools were mainly used to explain chemical reactions after
experimental results were obtained. With the rapid development of software and hardware …

Palladium‐Catalyzed Fluorinative Bifunctionalization of Aziridines and Azetidines with gem‐Difluorocyclopropanes

D Li, C Shen, Z Si, L Liu - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An unprecedented Pd‐catalyzed fluorinative bifunctionalization of aziridines and azetidines
was successfully developed via regioselective C− C and C− F bond cleavage of gem …

Recent advances in theoretical studies on transition-metal-catalyzed carbene transformations

X Qi, Y Lan - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Metal carbene plays a vital role in modern organic synthesis. The neutral
divalent carbon of metal carbene renders it an active intermediate throughout a range of …

para‐Selective C−H Borylation of (Hetero)Arenes by Cooperative Iridium/Aluminum Catalysis

L Yang, K Semba, Y Nakao - … Chemie International Edition, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract para‐Selective C− H borylation of benzamides and pyridines has been achieved by
cooperative iridium/aluminum catalysis. A combination of iridium catalysts commonly …

Gold-catalyzed C (sp 3)–H bond functionalization

J Xie, C Pan, A Abdukader, C Zhu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
C–H bonds are ubiquitous in organic molecules. Homogenous gold-catalyzed direct
functionalization of unsaturated C–H bonds has emerged as a powerful method in our …

(C6F5)3B Catalyzed Chemoselective and ortho‐Selective Substitution of Phenols with α‐Aryl α‐Diazoesters

Z Yu, Y Li, J Shi, B Ma, L Liu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The development of an efficient method for the site‐selective substitution of unprotected
phenols has long been considered as an attractive but challenging task. Herein, we …

Regiospecific and enantioselective arylvinylcarbene insertion of a C–H bond of aniline derivatives enabled by a Rh (I)-diene catalyst

DX Zhu, H Xia, JG Liu, LW Chung… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Asymmetric insertion of an arylvinylcarbenoid into the C–H bond for direct enantioselective
C (sp2)-H functionalization of aniline derivatives catalyzed by a rhodium (I)-diene complex …

Gold‐catalyzed formal [4+ 1]/[4+ 3] cycloadditions of diazo esters with triazines

C Zhu, G Xu, J Sun - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Reported herein is the unprecedented gold‐catalyzed formal [4+ 1]/[4+ 3] cycloadditions of
diazo esters with hexahydro‐1, 3, 4‐triazines, thus providing five‐and seven‐membered …

Chemoselective asymmetric intramolecular dearomatization of phenols with α-diazoacetamides catalyzed by silver phosphate

H Nakayama, S Harada, M Kono… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report asymmetric dearomatization of phenols using Ag carbenoids from α-
diazoacetamides. The Ag catalyst promoted intramolecular dearomatization of phenols …