3d transition metals for C–H activation

P Gandeepan, T Müller, D Zell, G Cera… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
C–H activation has surfaced as an increasingly powerful tool for molecular sciences, with
notable applications to material sciences, crop protection, drug discovery, and …

Transformations of less-activated phenols and phenol derivatives via C–O cleavage

Z Qiu, CJ Li - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Employing phenols and phenol derivatives as electrophiles for cross-coupling reactions has
numerous advantages over commonly used aryl halides in terms of environmental …

Cross-coupling of aromatic esters and amides

R Takise, K Muto, J Yamaguchi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalytic cross-coupling reactions of aromatic esters and amides have recently gained
considerable attention from synthetic chemists as de novo and efficient synthetic methods to …

Computational studies of synthetically relevant homogeneous organometallic catalysis involving Ni, Pd, Ir, and Rh: an overview of commonly employed DFT methods …

T Sperger, IA Sanhueza, I Kalvet… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The field of organometallic catalysis has attracted considerable interest from both academia
and industry due to its broad applications in synthetic transformations. Pd, Ni, Rh, and Ir …

The activation strain model and molecular orbital theory: understanding and designing chemical reactions

I Fernández, FM Bickelhaupt - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In this Tutorial Review, we make the point that a true understanding of trends in reactivity (as
opposed to measuring or simply computing them) requires a causal reactivity model. To this …

Activation of C–O and C–N bonds using non-precious-metal catalysis

TB Boit, AS Bulger, JE Dander, NK Garg - ACS catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Metal-catalyzed cross-couplings represent one of the most important reaction platforms in
modern synthetic chemistry (Figure 1 A). 1 Although the field enjoys a rich history, there …

How Doped MoS2 Breaks Transition-Metal Scaling Relations for CO2 Electrochemical Reduction

X Hong, K Chan, C Tsai, JK Nørskov - Acs Catalysis, 2016 - ACS Publications
Linear scaling relationships between the adsorption energies of CO2 reduction
intermediates pose a fundamental limitation to the catalytic efficiency of transition-metal …

Palladium-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura coupling of aryl esters

T Ben Halima, W Zhang, I Yalaoui, X Hong… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The Suzuki–Miyaura coupling is among the most important C–C bond-forming reactions
available due to its reliability, chemoselectivity, and diversity. Aryl halides and …

Fundamental studies and development of nickel-catalyzed trifluoromethylthiolation of aryl chlorides: active catalytic species and key roles of ligand and traceless …

G Yin, I Kalvet, U Englert… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A catalytic protocol to convert aryl and heteroaryl chlorides to the corresponding
trifluoromethyl sulfides is reported herein. It relies on a relatively inexpensive Ni (cod) 2/dppf …

Decarbonylative organoboron cross-coupling of esters by nickel catalysis

K Muto, J Yamaguchi, DG Musaev, K Itami - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract The Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling is a metal-catalysed reaction in which boron-
based nucleophiles and halide-based electrophiles are reacted to form a single molecule …