A guide to organic electroreduction using sacrificial anodes

Y Li, L Wen, W Guo - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic electrosynthesis is a green strategy for the synthesis of valuable molecules.
Electrochemical reactions using sacrificial metal anodes enable new reactivity to be …

Cross-Electrophile Coupling: Principles, Methods, and Applications in Synthesis

LE Ehehalt, OM Beleh, IC Priest, JM Mouat… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cross-electrophile coupling (XEC), defined by us as the cross-coupling of two different σ-
electrophiles that is driven by catalyst reduction, has seen rapid progression in recent years …

Machine Learning-Guided Development of Trialkylphosphine Ni(I) Dimers and Applications in Site-Selective Catalysis

TM Karl, S Bouayad-Gervais, JA Hueffel… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Owing to the unknown correlation of a metal's ligand and its resulting preferred speciation in
terms of oxidation state, geometry, and nuclearity, a rational design of multinuclear catalysts …

Merging of Light/Dark Palladium Catalytic Cycles Enables Multicomponent Tandem Alkyl Heck/Tsuji–Trost Homologative Amination Reaction toward Allylic Amines

N Kvasovs, J Fang, F Kliuev… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A visible light-induced palladium-catalyzed homologative three-component synthesis of
allylic amines has been developed. This protocol proceeds via a unique mechanism …

Carbonyl cross-metathesis via deoxygenative gem-di-metal catalysis

L Zhang, DA Nagib - Nature chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Carbonyls and alkenes are versatile functional groups, whose reactivities are cornerstones
of organic synthesis. The selective combination of two carbonyls to form an alkene—a …

Exploration on Metal-Catalytic Conversion of Sulfinyl Sulfones

Y Li, L Liu, D Shan, F Liang, S Wang, L Yu, JQ Liu… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The utilization of sulfinyl sulfones in transition-metal-catalyzed synthetic chemistry has rarely
been investigated. Here we report the design and utilization of nickel-catalytic conversion of …

Carbon–Germanium Bond Formation via Low-Valent Cobalt-Catalyzed Cross-Electrophile Coupling

H Chen, C Zhu, H Yue, M Rueping - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
An efficient, electrochemically induced cobalt-catalyzed carbon–germanium bond formation
provides access to a variety of functionalized germane-containing compounds, including …

Nickel-catalyzed enantioselective coupling of acid chlorides with α-bromobenzoates: an asymmetric acyloin synthesis

H Ji, D Lin, L Tai, X Li, Y Shi, Q Han… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The reaction of common acyl-metal species (acyl anion) with aldehydes to furnish acyloins
has received much less attention and specifically was restricted to using preformed …

Group 14 Elements Hetero‐Difunctionalizations via Nickel‐Catalyzed Electroreductive Cross‐Coupling

H Chen, C Zhu, H Yue… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The difunctionalization of unsaturated bonds plays a vital role in the enrichment of molecular
complexity. While various catalytic methods for alkene and alkyne difunctionalization have …

Paired Electrolysis Enabled Trifluoromethylheteroaromatization of Alkenes and Alkyne with Trifluoromethyl Thianthrenium Triflate (TT-CF3+OTf) as a Bifunctional …

F Xiang, D Wang, K Xu, CC Zeng - Organic Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report a strategic exploitation of trifluoromethyl thianthrenium triflate (TT-CF3+ OTf–) as
both electromediator and CF3 radical precursors for paired electrolysis. Enabled by this …