Organocatalytic reactions enabled by N-heterocyclic carbenes

DM Flanigan, F Romanov-Michailidis, NA White… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
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A continuing challenge: N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed syntheses of γ-butyrolactones

KJR Murauski, AA Jaworski, KA Scheidt - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalytic, stereoselective N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed reactions facilitate efficient
construction of many different heterocyclic compounds, such as the enantioenriched 5 …

Recent advances in employing homoenolates generated by N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalysis in carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions

RS Menon, AT Biju, V Nair - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of NHCs for generating homoenolate species has gained widespread popularity in
recent years. A number of highly stereoselective processes of NHC-homoenolates have …

New developments of the principle of vinylogy as applied to π-extended enolate-type donor systems

C Curti, L Battistini, A Sartori, F Zanardi - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The principle of vinylogy states that the electronic effects of a functional group in a molecule
are possibly transmitted to a distal position through interposed conjugated multiple bonds …

Recent Advances in the Construction of Phosphorus‐Substituted Heterocycles, 2009–2019

L Chen, XY Liu, YX Zou - Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Phosphorus‐substituted heterocycles represent an important class of organophosphorus
compounds, which not only widely exist in biologically active pharmaceuticals …

Enantioselective functionalization at the C4 position of pyridinium salts through NHC catalysis

H Choi, GR Mathi, S Hong, S Hong - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
A catalytic method for the enantioselective and C4-selective functionalization of pyridine
derivatives is yet to be developed. Herein, we report an efficient method for the asymmetric β …

N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed Formal [3+ 2] Annulation Reaction of Enals: An Efficient Enantioselective Access to Spiro‐Heterocycles

C Guo, M Schedler, CG Daniliuc… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A highly enantioselective N‐heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalyzed formal [3+ 2] annulation
of α, β‐unsaturated aldehydes with azaaurones or aurone generating spiro‐heterocycles …

N-heterocyclic carbene catalyzed switchable reactions of enals with azoalkenes: formal [4+ 3] and [4+ 1] annulations for the synthesis of 1, 2-diazepines and pyrazoles

C Guo, B Sahoo, CG Daniliuc… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A regio-and enantioselective formal [4+ 3] annulation reaction between enals and in situ
formed azoalkenes has been achieved. A diverse set of 1, 2-diazepine derivatives were …

Conjugate Umpolung of β, β‐Disubstituted Enals by Dual Catalysis with an N‐Heterocyclic Carbene and a Brønsted Acid: Facile Construction of Contiguous …

JL Li, B Sahoo, CG Daniliuc… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A sterically hindered homoenolate has been generated by the NHC‐catalyzed conjugate
umpolung of β, β‐disubstituted enals and successfully employed in a facile stereoselective …

Carbene-Catalyzed Direct O-Functionalization of Ketone: Atroposelective Access to Non-C2-Symmetric Binaphthyls

B Mondal, H Chen, R Maiti, H Wang, H Cai… - Organic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Disclosed here is NHC-catalyzed direct intermolecular trapping of the ketone oxygen atom
with the acyl azolium intermediate. The overall reaction is a dynamic kinetic resolution …