Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed carbene insertion to C–H bonds

Y He, Z Huang, K Wu, J Ma, YG Zhou… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
C–H functionalization has been emerging as a powerful method to establish carbon–carbon
and carbon–heteroatom bonds. Many efforts have been devoted to transition-metal …

Gold-catalyzed C (sp 3)–H bond functionalization

J Xie, C Pan, A Abdukader, C Zhu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
C–H bonds are ubiquitous in organic molecules. Homogenous gold-catalyzed direct
functionalization of unsaturated C–H bonds has emerged as a powerful method in our …

Metal bound or free ylides as reaction intermediates in metal-catalyzed [2, 3]-sigmatropic rearrangements? It depends

CJ Laconsay, DJ Tantillo - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Density functional theory calculations were applied to study four previously published metal-
catalyzed [2, 3]-rearrangements from onium ylide intermediates, in pursuit of generalizations …

Gold‐catalyzed C− H Functionalization of Phenothiazines with Aryldiazoacetates

S Jana, C Empel, C Pei, T Vinh Nguyen… - Advanced Synthesis …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Phenothiazine is an important structural motif in pharmaceuticals and advanced functional
organic materials. However, the C− H functionalization reaction of N‐protected …

Doyle–Kirmse Reaction on Alkynyl Hydrazone Carboxylates: Synthesis of 1, 4-Allenyne and 1, 5-Enyne Thioaryl Carboxylates

H Vaid, A Sharma, P Jamwal, P Sharma… - Organic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The first Doyle–Kirmse reaction on alkynyl diazoacetates using allyl/propargyl sulfides is
reported. The development provides diversified 1, 5-enyne and 1, 4-allenyne thioaryl …

Photochemistry of 1-Phenyl-1-diazopropane and its Diazirine Isomer: A CASSCF and MS-CASPT2 Study

J Soto - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this work, we studied the wavelength (520 or 350 nm) dependence of the photochemical
decomposition of 1-phenyl-1-diazopropane (PDP) and 1-phenyl-1-propyl diazirine (PED) by …

Recent Advances in the Asymmetric Doyle–Kirmse Reaction

CY Shi, B Zhou, MY Teng, LW Ye - Synthesis, 2023 - thieme-connect.com
The asymmetric Doyle–Kirmse reaction has become increasingly important in the
construction of chiral sulfides, especially for those with quaternary carbon stereocenters …

Catalytic rearrangements of onium ylides in aromatic systems

VN Nair, UK Tambar - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Onium ylides are reactive intermediates that undergo versatile chemical transformations to
give structurally interesting compounds. Rearrangement reactions of onium ylides are of …

A recent progress for the synthesis of thiocarboxylates

X Wang, ZB Dong - European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As a common and integral feature of many natural products, thiocarboxylates play an
important role in biologically or pharmaceutically active compounds. Thiocarboxylates often …

Gold catalyzed efficient preparation of dihydrobenzofuran from 1, 3-enyne and phenol

YJ Wang, Y Zhang, Z Qiang, JY Liang… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A gold catalyzed formal intermolecular [2+ 3] cyclo-coupling of 1, 3-enynes with phenols was
developed to prepare dihydrobenzofuran derivatives with the addition of 2, 6 …