Recent advances in well-defined, late transition metal complexes that make and/or break C–N, C–O and C–S bonds

AN Desnoyer, JA Love - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemical transformations that result in either the formation or cleavage of carbon–
heteroatom bonds are among the most important processes in the chemical sciences …

1, 3-N, O-Complexes of late transition metals. Ligands with flexible bonding modes and reaction profiles

MW Drover, JA Love, LL Schafer - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
1, 3-N, O-Chelating ligands are ubiquitous in nature owing to their occurrence as α-chiral
amino acids in metalloproteins. These structural units also display diverse coordination …

An Amine-Assisted Ionic Monohydride Mechanism Enables Selective Alkyne cis-Semihydrogenation with Ethanol: From Elementary Steps to Catalysis

Z Huang, Y Wang, X Leng, Z Huang - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The selective synthesis of Z-alkenes in alkyne semihydrogenation relies on the reactivity
difference of the catalysts toward the starting materials and the products. Here we report Z …

Ni–O Cooperation versus Nickel(II) Hydride in Catalytic Hydroboration of N-Heteroarenes

J Liu, JY Chen, M Jia, B Ming, J Jia, RZ Liao… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
An air-stable half-sandwich nickel (II) complex bearing a phosphinophenolato ligand, Cp* Ni
(1, 2-Ph2PC6H4O)(1), has been designed and synthesized for activation of HBpin and …

Efficient Palladium‐Catalyzed Alkoxycarbonylation of Bulk Industrial Olefins Using Ferrocenyl Phosphine Ligands

K Dong, R Sang, X Fang, R Franke… - Angewandte …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The development of ligands plays a key role and provides important innovations in
homogeneous catalysis. In this context, we report a novel class of ferrocenyl phosphines for …

Cooperative molybdenum-thiolate reactivity for transfer hydrogenation of nitriles

SF Hou, JY Chen, M Xue, M Jia, X Zhai, RZ Liao… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A half-sandwich molybdenum (II) thiolate complex with a η2-MeCN ligand, Cp* Mo (1, 2-
Ph2PC6H4S)(η2-NCMe)(1 (η2-NCMe)), was found to catalyze transfer hydrogenation of …

Quantitative analysis on two-point ligand modulation of iridium catalysts for chemodivergent C–H amidation

Y Hwang, H Jung, E Lee, D Kim… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The transition-metal-catalyzed nitrenoid transfer reaction is one of the most attractive
methods for installing a new C–N bond into diverse reactive units. While numerous selective …

Activation of epoxides by a cooperative iron–thiolate catalyst: intermediacy of ferrous alkoxides in catalytic hydroboration

H Song, K Ye, P Geng, X Han, R Liao, CH Tung… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
This paper describes a cooperative iron–thiolate catalyst Cp* Fe (1, 2-Ph2PC6H4S)(NCMe)(
Cp*–= C5Me5–,[1 (NCMe)]) for regioselective hydroboration of aryl epoxide by …

Iron-Catalyzed Regiodivergent Hydrostannation of Alkynes: Intermediacy of Fe (IV)–H versus Fe (II)–Vinylidene

J Liu, H Song, T Wang, J Jia, QX Tong… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report an iron system, Cp* Fe (1, 2-R2PC6H4X), which controls the Markovnikov and
anti-Markovnikov hydrostannation of alkynes by tuning the ionic metal–heteroatom bonds …

Opening up the toolbox: synthesis and mechanisms of phosphoramidates

EJ Itumoh, S Data, EM Leitao - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
This review covers the main synthetic routes to and the corresponding mechanisms of
phosphoramidate formation. The synthetic routes can be separated into six categories: salt …