Design principles of the use of alkynes in radical cascades

C Hu, J Mena, IV Alabugin - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
One of the simplest organic functional groups, the alkyne, offers a broad canvas for the
design of cascade transformations in which up to three new bonds can be added to each of …

Carbon–sulfur bond formation via photochemical strategies: An efficient method for the synthesis of sulfur-containing compounds

D Yang, Q Yan, E Zhu, J Lv, WM He - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of green and convenient methods for C–S bond formation has received
significant attention because C–S bond widely occurs in many important pharmaceutical …

Copper-catalyzed C–H functionalization reactions: efficient synthesis of heterocycles

XX Guo, DW Gu, Z Wu, W Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Copper-Catalyzed C–H Functionalization Reactions: Efficient Synthesis of Heterocycles |
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Silver-catalysed reactions of alkynes: recent advances

G Fang, X Bi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Silver is a less expensive noble metal. Superior alkynophilicity due to π-coordination with
the carbon–carbon triple bond makes silver salts ideal catalysts for alkyne-based organic …

Recent advances in Pd-catalyzed asymmetric cyclization reactions

B Xu, Q Wang, C Fang, ZM Zhang… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past few decades, there have been major developments in transition metal-
catalyzed asymmetric cyclization reactions, enabling the convenient access to a wide …

Formal [4+ 1] annulation reactions in the synthesis of carbocyclic and heterocyclic systems

JR Chen, XQ Hu, LQ Lu, WJ Xiao - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The development of new strategies and chemical reactions continues to be a major focus of
research efforts in the modern synthetic organic community. 1 Of the various types of …

Synthesis of organoselenium compounds with elemental selenium

YT Ma, MC Liu, YB Zhou, HY Wu - Advanced Synthesis & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the recent decade, growing efforts have been devoted to employing elemental selenium
as a selenium source in organic synthesis. In contrast to unstable, smelly, and toxic previous …

The chemistry of heterocycles in the 21st century

VN Charushin, EV Verbitskiy, ON Chupakhin… - Uspekhi Khimii, 2024 - mathnet.ru
The chemistry of heterocyclic compounds has traditionally been and remains a bright area of
chemical science in Russia. This is due to the fact that many heterocycles find the widest …

Biaryl synthesis with arenediazonium salts: cross-coupling, CH-arylation and annulation reactions

FX Felpin, S Sengupta - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The rich legacy of arenediazonium salts in the synthesis of unsymmetrical biaryls, built
around the seminal works of Pschorr, Gomberg and Bachmann more than a century ago …

Cyclizations of alkynes: revisiting Baldwin's rules for ring closure

K Gilmore, IV Alabugin - Chemical Reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
According to the CRC dictionary of natural products, 1 90% of chemically individual
molecules discovered in nature contain either a carbocyclic or a heterocyclic subunit. 2 Not …