Aryl transfer strategies mediated by photoinduced electron transfer

AR Allen, EA Noten, CRJ Stephenson - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Radical aryl migrations are powerful techniques to forge new bonds in aromatic compounds.
The growing popularity of photoredox catalysis has led to an influx of novel strategies to …

Site-selective cross-coupling of polyhalogenated arenes and heteroarenes with identical halogen groups

V Palani, MA Perea, R Sarpong - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Methods to functionalize arenes and heteroarenes in a site-selective manner are highly
sought after for rapidly constructing value-added molecules of medicinal, agrochemical, and …

Asymmetric, visible light-mediated radical sulfinyl-Smiles rearrangement to access all-carbon quaternary stereocentres

C Hervieu, MS Kirillova, T Suárez, M Müller… - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
The asymmetric construction of all-carbon quaternary centres within acyclic settings
represents a long-standing challenge for synthetic chemists. Alongside polar and radical …

Visible Light Assisted Radical‐Polar/Polar‐Radical Crossover Reactions in Organic Synthesis

S Sharma, J Singh, A Sharma - Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Chemists are generally familiar with polar reactions and radical reactions, in comparison,
are underdeveloped. In the last few years, however, the novel concept of amalgamation of …

Concerted nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions

S Rohrbach, AJ Smith, JH Pang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent developments in experimental and computational chemistry have identified a rapidly
growing class of nucleophilic aromatic substitutions that proceed by concerted (cSNAr) …

C(sp3)-Arylation by Conformationally Accelerated Intramolecular Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution (SNAr)

SM Wales, RK Saunthwal… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The asymmetric synthesis of heavily substituted benzylic stereogenic centers,
prevalent in natural products, therapeutics, agrochemicals, and catalysts, is an ongoing …

Assembly of (hetero) aryl thioethers via simple nucleophilic aromatic substitution and Cu-catalyzed coupling reactions with (hetero) aryl chlorides and bromides under …

W Liu, X Jin, D Ma - Green Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The requirement of higher reaction temperatures for an SNAr reaction between thiols and
less reactive electron-poor aryl halides described in earlier reports has triggered intensive …

Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of sulfur-containing atropisomers by CS bond formations

RF Cao, ZM Chen - Science China Chemistry, 2023 - Springer
Chiral organosulfur compounds are not only widely distributed in bioactive natural products
and pharmaceuticals, but also play a significant role in chiral ligands/catalysts. Throughout …

Multiscale simulations of the covalent inhibition of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease: Four compounds and three reaction mechanisms

BL Grigorenko, IV Polyakov, MG Khrenova… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report the results of computational modeling of the reactions of the SARS-CoV-2 main
protease (MPro) with four potential covalent inhibitors. Two of them, carmofur and …

Atroposelective Total Synthesis of Cihunamide B

L Yu, Y Nagata, H Nakamura - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
A short, atroposelective synthesis of cihunamide B (1) is reported. The feature of this report
is the decagram-scale SNAr reaction of l-tryptophan derivatives, followed by atroposelective …