Photochemical and electrochemical applications of proton-coupled electron transfer in organic synthesis

PRD Murray, JH Cox, ND Chiappini, CB Roos… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We present here a review of the photochemical and electrochemical applications of multi-
site proton-coupled electron transfer (MS-PCET) in organic synthesis. MS-PCETs are redox …

Organic synthesis using nitroxides

D Leifert, A Studer - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nitroxides, also known as nitroxyl radicals, are long-lived or stable radicals with the general
structure R1R2N–O•. The spin distribution over the nitroxide N and O atoms contributes to …

Organic synthesis with the most abundant transition metal–iron: from rust to multitasking catalysts

S Rana, JP Biswas, S Paul, A Paik… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In industries and academic laboratories, several late transition metal-catalyzed prerequisite
reactions are widely performed during single and multistep synthesis. However, besides the …

Recent advances in radical C–H activation/radical cross-coupling

H Yi, G Zhang, H Wang, Z Huang, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Research and industrial interest in radical C–H activation/radical cross-coupling chemistry
has continuously grown over the past few decades. These reactions offer fascinating and …

Catalysis of radical reactions: a radical chemistry perspective

A Studer, DP Curran - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The area of catalysis of radical reactions has recently flourished. Various reaction conditions
have been discovered and explained in terms of catalytic cycles. These cycles rarely stand …

Iron catalysis in organic synthesis

I Bauer, HJ Knölker - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The present review “Iron Catalysis in Organic Synthesis” covers the literature until the end of
June 2014 and represents a comprehensive update of a previous article published by Bolm …

Recent advances in the synthesis of nitrogen heterocycles via radical cascade reactions using isonitriles as radical acceptors

B Zhang, A Studer - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Nitrogen heterocycles belong to a highly important class of compounds which are found in
various natural products, biologically active structures, and medicinally relevant compounds …

Radical cascade cyclization of 1, n-enynes and diynes for the synthesis of carbocycles and heterocycles

J Xuan, A Studer - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbo-and heterocycles are widely found in natural products, biologically active structures,
medicinally relevant compounds, and in many other fine chemicals. The development of …

To each his own: isonitriles for all flavors. Functionalized isocyanides as valuable tools in organic synthesis

M Giustiniano, A Basso, V Mercalli… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The term functionalized isocyanides refers to all those isocyanides in which a neighbouring
functional group can finely tune the reactivity of the isocyano group or can be exploited in …

The electron is a catalyst

A Studer, DP Curran - Nature chemistry, 2014 - nature.com
The electron is an efficient catalyst for conducting various types of radical cascade reaction
that proceed by way of radical and radical ion intermediates. But because electrons are …