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 …

N-Triftosylhydrazones: A New Chapter for Diazo-Based Carbene Chemistry

Z Liu, P Sivaguru, G Zanoni, X Bi - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Over recent decades, N-sulfonylhydrazones have attracted significant attention
in academic and industrial contexts owing to their ease of preparation, versatile reactivity …

Catalytic alkylation of unactivated C (sp 3)–H bonds for C (sp 3)–C (sp 3) bond formation

Z Chen, MY Rong, J Nie, XF Zhu, BF Shi… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The construction of carbon–carbon bonds is a central tenet of modern synthetic chemistry.
Metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization can serve as a particularly powerful tool for achieving …

If C H Bonds Could Talk: Selective C H Bond Oxidation

T Newhouse, PS Baran - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
C H oxidation has a long history and an ongoing presence in research at the forefront of
chemistry and interrelated fields. As such, numerous highly useful articles and reviews have …

Catalytic carbene insertion into C− H bonds

MP Doyle, R Duffy, M Ratnikov, L Zhou - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
From its earliest observation as an unusual reaction only a half century ago, 1 the insertion
of a carbene into a carbonrhydrogen bond has attracted considerable interest because of its …

C− H functionalization of commodity polymers

JB Williamson, SE Lewis, RR Johnson III… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Synthetic manipulation of polymer substrates is one of the oldest and most reliable methods
to increase the functional diversity of soft materials. Modifying the chemical structure of …

Catalytic C–H functionalization by metal carbenoid and nitrenoid insertion

HML Davies, JR Manning - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Novel reactions that can selectively functionalize carbon–hydrogen bonds are of intense
interest to the chemical community because they offer new strategic approaches for …

Catalytic enantioselective C− H activation by means of metal− carbenoid-induced C− H insertion

HML Davies, REJ Beckwith - Chemical reviews, 2003 - ACS Publications
The demand for more efficient ways to construct complex chemical structures from simple,
readily available precursors continues unabated. A very attractive way to meet this demand …

Direct Sp 3 α-C–H activation and functionalization of alcohol and ether

SY Zhang, FM Zhang, YQ Tu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Seven kinds of sp3 α-C–H activation/C–C formation reactions of alcohols and ethers have
been reviewed in this tutorial review, from the viewpoint of both methodology and synthetic …

Coinage metal catalyzed C− H bond functionalization of hydrocarbons

MM Díaz-Requejo, PJ Perez - Chemical reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
The usually employed term of Holy Grail in the search of efficient methods that convert
readily available sources such as hydrocarbons into value added products is yet completely …