Recent advance in MXenes: new horizons in electrocatalysis and environmental remediation technologies

K Khan, AK Tareen, M Iqbal, Y Zhang… - Progress in Solid State …, 2022 - Elsevier
A strong electrocatalytic activity of the MXenes nanomaterials (NMs) has gained a lot of
concentration as cutting edge materials in a variety of electrocatalytic devices in a broad …

Copper-catalyzed regioselective formation of tri-and tetrasubstituted vinylboronates in air

YD Bidal, F Lazreg, CSJ Cazin - ACS Catalysis, 2014 - ACS Publications
The first “in air” copper-catalyzed method for the selective synthesis of tri-and
tetrasubstituted vinylboronate derivatives is presented. Three different variants of the …

Copper-mediated C–X functionalization of aryl halides

PJ Amal Joseph, S Priyadarshini - Organic Process Research & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
For more than a century, copper has been used as a promoter in cross-coupling reactions of
aryl halides with diverse nucleophiles to construct C–C and C-heteroatom bonds. The …

Synthesis of complex phenols enabled by a rationally designed hydroxide surrogate

PS Fier, KM Maloney - Angewandte Chemie, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The conversion of aryl halides to phenols under mild reaction conditions is a longstanding
and formidable challenge in organic chemistry. Herein, we report the rational design of a …

Reagent design and ligand evolution for the development of a mild copper-catalyzed hydroxylation reaction

PS Fier, KM Maloney - Organic letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
Parallel synthesis and mass-directed purification of a modular ligand library, high-
throughput experimentation, and rational ligand evolution have led to a novel copper …

Pd-grafted functionalized mesoporous MCM-41: a novel, green and heterogeneous nanocatalyst for the selective synthesis of phenols and anilines from aryl halides …

F Havasi, A Ghorbani-Choghamarani… - New Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A new type of mesoporous-recoverable catalyst was synthesized by the immobilization of Pd
on the surface of functionalized mesoporous MCM-41 and used as an efficient, recoverable …

Palladium-catalyzed hydroxylation of aryl and heteroaryl halides enabled by the use of a palladacycle precatalyst

CW Cheung, SL Buchwald - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
A method for the hydroxylation of aryl and heteroaryl halides, promoted by a catalyst based
on a biarylphosphine ligand t BuBrettPhos (L5) and its corresponding palladium precatalyst …

Direct conversion of haloarenes to phenols under mild, transition-metal-free conditions

PS Fier, KM Maloney - Organic letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
A high-yielding and practical method for the synthesis of phenols from electron-deficient
haloarenes and heteroarenes has been developed. The products are formed from …

Copper N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes As Active Catalysts for the Synthesis of 2-Substituted Oxazolines from Nitriles and Aminoalcohols

M Trose, F Lazreg, M Lesieur… - The Journal of Organic …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The reaction between nitriles and aminoalcohols to access 2-substituted oxazolines was
investigated. Using copper–NHC complexes, various nitriles were successfully converted …

N-Heterocyclic carbene copper (I) complex-catalyzed synthesis of 2-aryl benzoxazoles and benzothiazoles

JI Urzúa, R Contreras, CO Salas, RA Tapia - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
A new and efficient synthesis of 2-arylbenzoxazoles and benzothiazoles using a copper N-
heterocyclic carbene complex is described. In a simple protocol a variety of 2-substituted …