A Paradigm Shift in Catalysis: Electro-and Photomediated Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions

MD Palkowitz, MA Emmanuel… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Transition-metal catalyzed cross-coupling reactions are fundamental reactions
in organic chemistry, facilitating strategic bond formations for accessing natural products …

Comproportionation and disproportionation in nickel and copper complexes

CS Day, R Martin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Disproportionation and comproportionation reactions have become increasingly important
electron transfer events in organometallic chemistry and catalysis. The renewed interest in …

Mechanistic investigation of Ni-catalyzed reductive cross-coupling of alkenyl and benzyl electrophiles

RF Turro, JLH Wahlman, ZJ Tong, X Chen… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Mechanistic investigations of the Ni-catalyzed asymmetric reductive alkenylation of N-
hydroxyphthalimide (NHP) esters and benzylic chlorides are reported. Investigations of the …

Elucidating electron-transfer events in polypyridine nickel complexes for reductive coupling reactions

CS Day, Á Rentería-Gómez, SJ Ton, AR Gogoi… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Polypyridine-ligated nickel complexes are widely used as privileged catalysts in a variety of
cross-coupling reactions. The rapid adoption of these complexes is tentatively attributed to …

Interrogating the mechanistic features of Ni (I)-mediated aryl iodide oxidative addition using electroanalytical and statistical modeling techniques

T Tang, A Hazra, DS Min, WL Williams… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
While the oxidative addition of Ni (I) to aryl iodides has been commonly proposed in catalytic
methods, an in-depth mechanistic understanding of this fundamental process is still lacking …

Paired electrolysis-enabled nickel-catalyzed enantioselective reductive cross-coupling between α-chloroesters and aryl bromides

D Liu, ZR Liu, ZH Wang, C Ma, S Herbert… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrochemical asymmetric catalysis has emerged as a sustainable and promising
approach to the production of chiral compounds and the utilization of both the anode and …

Enantioselective reductive cross-couplings of olefins by merging electrochemistry with nickel catalysis

YZ Wang, B Sun, XY Zhu, YC Gu, C Ma… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The merger of electrochemistry and transition metal catalysis has emerged as a powerful
tool to join two electrophiles in an enantioselective manner. However, the development of …

Carbon-centered radical capture at nickel (II) complexes: Spectroscopic evidence, rates, and selectivity

Q Lin, EH Spielvogel, T Diao - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
The capture of carbon-centered radicals at a nickel (II) center is commonly featured in recent
cross-coupling and metallaphotoredox catalytic reactions. Despite its widespread …

Ligand Redox Activity of Organonickel Radical Complexes Governed by the Geometry

GA Dawson, Q Lin, MC Neary… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions often employ bidentate π-acceptor N-ligands to
facilitate radical pathways. This report presents the synthesis and characterization of a …

Nickel-catalyzed radical mechanisms: informing cross-coupling for synthesizing non-canonical biomolecules

GA Dawson, EH Spielvogel, T Diao - Accounts of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Nickel excels at facilitating selective radical chemistry, playing a pivotal role in
metalloenzyme catalysis and modern cross-coupling reactions. Radicals, being nonpolar …