Synthetic molecular photoelectrochemistry: new frontiers in synthetic applications, mechanistic insights and scalability

S Wu, J Kaur, TA Karl, X Tian… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Synthetic photoelectrochemistry (PEC) is receiving increasing attention as a new frontier for
the generation and handling of reactive intermediates. PEC permits selective single …

Iron-catalyzed C–H bond activation

R Shang, L Ilies, E Nakamura - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Catalytic C–H bond activation, which was an elusive subject of chemical research until the
1990s, has now become a standard synthetic method for the formation of new C–C and C …

Organocatalysis in inert C–H bond functionalization

Y Qin, L Zhu, S Luo - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
As two coexisting and fast-growing research fields in modern synthetic chemistry, the
merging of organocatalysis and C–H bond functionalization is well foreseeable, and the joint …

C–H functionalization of azines

K Murakami, S Yamada, T Kaneda, K Itami - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Azines, which are six-membered aromatic compounds containing one or more nitrogen
atoms, serve as ubiquitous structural cores of aromatic species with important applications in …

Oxidative coupling between two hydrocarbons: an update of recent C–H functionalizations

C Liu, J Yuan, M Gao, S Tang, W Li, R Shi… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
C− C bond formation is a fundamental transformation in organic synthesis. The development
of new synthetic methodology could be considered as a way of pursuing a novel method for …

Transition-metal-free coupling reactions

CL Sun, ZJ Shi - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal-catalyzed reactions have been studied since the very beginning of the past
century and represent a great success in organic chemistry, along with the birth and growth …

Phenalenyl radical: Smallest polycyclic odd alternant hydrocarbon present in the graphene sheet

J Ahmed, SK Mandal - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Phenalenyl, a zigzag-edged odd alternant hydrocarbon unit can be found in the graphene
nanosheet. Hückel molecular orbital calculations indicate the presence of a nonbonding …

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 …

Carboxylate-assisted transition-metal-catalyzed C− H bond functionalizations: mechanism and scope

L Ackermann - Chemical reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
The site-selective formation of carbonrcarbon bonds through direct functionalizations of
otherwise unreactive carbonrhydrogen bonds constitutes an economically attractive strategy …

Late‐Stage Heteroarylation of Hetero (aryl) sulfonium Salts Activated by α‐Amino Alkyl Radicals

EM Alvarez, T Karl, F Berger… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We report a late‐stage heteroarylation of aryl sulfonium salts through activation with α‐
amino alkyl radicals in a mechanistically distinct approach from previously reported halogen …