Mn-, Fe-, and Co-catalyzed radical hydrofunctionalizations of olefins

SWM Crossley, C Obradors, RM Martinez… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Cofactor-mimetic aerobic oxidation has conceptually merged with catalysis of syngas
reactions to form a wide range of Markovnikov-selective olefin radical …

The high chemofidelity of metal-catalyzed hydrogen atom transfer

SA Green, SWM Crossley, JLM Matos… - Accounts of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The implementation of any chemical reaction in a structurally complex setting
(King, SMJ Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 8937) confronts structurally defined barriers: steric …

Selectivity of C–H activation and competition between C–H and C–F bond activation at fluorocarbons

O Eisenstein, J Milani, RN Perutz - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Partially fluorinated alkanes, arenes, and alkenes can be transformed by a variety of
transition metal and lanthanide systems. Although the C–H bond is weaker than the C–F …

C H Bond Activation in Transition Metal Species from a Computational Perspective

D Balcells, E Clot, O Eisenstein - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
Alkanes constitute the cheapest and most abundant feedstock for organic chemicals.
However, the redistribution of CsC and CsH bonds in hydrocarbons into more sophisticated …

All-electron scalar relativistic basis sets for third-row transition metal atoms

DA Pantazis, XY Chen, CR Landis… - Journal of chemical …, 2008 - ACS Publications
A family of segmented all-electron relativistically contracted (SARC) basis sets for the
elements Hf− Hg is constructed for use in conjunction with the Douglas− Kroll− Hess (DKH) …

Exceptional Sensitivity of Metal−Aryl Bond Energies to ortho-Fluorine Substituents: Influence of the Metal, the Coordination Sphere, and the Spectator Ligands on M …

E Clot, C Megret, O Eisenstein… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - ACS Publications
DFT calculations are reported of the energetics of C− H oxidative addition of benzene and
fluorinated benzenes, ArFH (ArF= C6F n H5− n, n= 0− 5) at ZrCp2 (Cp= η5-C5H5), TaCp2H …

Computational study of Ni-catalyzed C–H functionalization: factors that control the competition of oxidative addition and radical pathways

HM Omer, P Liu - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017 - ACS Publications
The mechanisms of Ni-catalyzed C–H arylation, alkylation, and sulfenylation with N, N-
bidentate directing groups are investigated using density functional theory (DFT) …

Toward accurate theoretical thermochemistry of first row transition metal complexes

W Jiang, NJ DeYonker, JJ Determan… - The Journal of Physical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The recently developed correlation consistent Composite Approach for transition metals
(ccCA-TM) was utilized to compute the thermochemical properties for a collection of 225 …

First-row transition metal catalyzed reduction of carbonyl functionalities: a mechanistic perspective

S Chakraborty, H Guan - Dalton Transactions, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of first-row transition metals for the catalytic reduction of carbonyl functionalities has
become increasingly important in homogeneous catalysis. This Perspective examines the …

Proton-coupled electron transfer in organic synthesis: novel homolytic bond activations and catalytic asymmetric reactions with free radicals

HG Yayla, RR Knowles - Synlett, 2014 - thieme-connect.com
Proton-coupled electron transfers (PCET) are unconventional redox processes in which an
electron and proton are exchanged together in a concerted elementary step. While these …