HFIP in organic synthesis

HF Motiwala, AM Armaly, JG Cacioppo… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3-Hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) is a polar, strongly hydrogen bond-donating
solvent that has found numerous uses in organic synthesis due to its ability to stabilize ionic …

[HTML][HTML] Electrocatalysis as an enabling technology for organic synthesis

LFT Novaes, J Liu, Y Shen, L Lu… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrochemistry has recently gained increased attention as a versatile strategy for
achieving challenging transformations at the forefront of synthetic organic chemistry …

Photons or electrons? A critical comparison of electrochemistry and photoredox catalysis for organic synthesis

NES Tay, D Lehnherr, T Rovis - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Redox processes are at the heart of synthetic methods that rely on either electrochemistry or
photoredox catalysis, but how do electrochemistry and photoredox catalysis compare? Both …

Aziridine synthesis by coupling amines and alkenes via an electrogenerated dication

DE Holst, DJ Wang, MJ Kim, IA Guzei, ZK Wickens - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Aziridines—three-membered nitrogen-containing cyclic molecules—are important synthetic
targets. Their substantial ring strain and resultant proclivity towards ring-opening reactions …

Recent advances in electrochemically driven radical fluorination and fluoroalkylation

Z Zou, W Zhang, Y Wang, Y Pan - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrochemical fluorination (ECF) refers to the introduction of fluorine-containing moieties
into organic molecules under electrochemical conditions. The primary objective of this …

Fluorination and fluoroalkylation reactions mediated by hypervalent iodine reagents

ZZ Han, CP Zhang - Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This review summarizes the progress in the fluorination and fluoroalkylation of electron‐rich
systems with diverse fluorine (F) and fluoroalkyl (Rfn) reagents employing hypervalent …

Skeletal Ring Contractions via I(I)/I(III) Catalysis: Stereoselective Synthesis of cis-α,α-Difluorocyclopropanes

K Livingstone, K Siebold, S Meyer, V Martín-Heras… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The clinical success of α, α-difluorocyclopropanes, combined with limitations in the existing
synthesis portfolio, inspired the development of an operationally simple, organocatalysis …

Electrochemical C− C bond cleavage of cyclopropanes towards the synthesis of 1, 3-difunctionalized molecules

P Peng, X Yan, K Zhang, Z Liu, L Zeng, Y Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Electrochemistry has a lot of inherent advantages in organic synthesis and many redox
reactions have been achieved under electrochemical condition. However, the …

Expanding organofluorine chemical space: the design of chiral fluorinated isosteres enabled by I (I)/I (III) catalysis

S Meyer, J Häfliger, R Gilmour - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Short aliphatic groups are prevalent in bioactive small molecules and play an essential role
in regulating physicochemistry and molecular recognition phenomena. Delineating their …

Iodanyl radical catalysis

A Maity, BL Frey, DC Powers - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Hypervalent iodine reagents find application as selective chemical oxidants in a
diverse array of oxidative transformations. The utility of these reagents is often ascribed to …