Recent development of aryl diazonium chemistry for the derivatization of aromatic compounds

F Mo, D Qiu, L Zhang, J Wang - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Aryl diazonium salts are versatile building blocks in organic synthesis. In light of the ever-
increasing importance of aryl diazonium salts spanning most disciplines of the chemical …

Site-selective C–H functionalization to access the arene backbone of indoles and quinolines

B Prabagar, Y Yang, Z Shi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The site-selective C–H bond functionalization of heteroarenes can eventually provide
chemists with great techniques for editing and building complex molecular scaffolds. During …

Hexafluoroisopropanol: the magical solvent for Pd-catalyzed C–H activation

T Bhattacharya, A Ghosh, D Maiti - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Among numerous solvents available for chemical transformations, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3-hexafluoro-
2-propanol (popularly known as HFIP) has attracted enough attention of the scientific …

Photocatalysis in organic and polymer synthesis

N Corrigan, S Shanmugam, J Xu, C Boyer - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
This review, with over 600 references, summarizes the recent applications of photoredox
catalysis for organic transformation and polymer synthesis. Photoredox catalysts are metallo …

Biaryl synthesis with arenediazonium salts: cross-coupling, CH-arylation and annulation reactions

FX Felpin, S Sengupta - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The rich legacy of arenediazonium salts in the synthesis of unsymmetrical biaryls, built
around the seminal works of Pschorr, Gomberg and Bachmann more than a century ago …

Metal-catalysed C–Het (F, O, S, N) and C–C bond arylation

B Zhao, T Rogge, L Ackermann, Z Shi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The formation of C–aryl bonds has been the focus of intensive research over the last
decades for the construction of complex molecules from simple, readily available feedstocks …

Transition-metal-catalyzed site-selective C–H functionalization of quinolines beyond C2 selectivity

T Iwai, M Sawamura - ACS Catalysis, 2015 - ACS Publications
Quinoline is an important scaffold in many natural products, biologically active compounds,
and functional materials. The C–H functionalization of quinoline scaffolds by transition metal …

Fluorinated alcohols: magic reaction medium and promoters for organic synthesis

XD An, J **ao - The Chemical Record, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorinated alcohols have been widely used in the synthetic organic chemistry over the past
decades. The unique properties such as the strong hydrogen‐bonding donor ability and low …

A remarkable solvent effect of fluorinated alcohols on transition metal catalysed C–H functionalizations

J Wencel-Delord, F Colobert - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorinated solvents like 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3-hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) and trifluoroethanol
(TFE) have recently emerged as a remarkable synthetic solution allowing challenging C–H …

Mechanochemical Iridium (III)‐Catalyzed C− H Bond Amidation of Benzamides with Sulfonyl Azides under Solvent‐Free Conditions in a Ball Mill

GN Hermann, P Becker, C Bolm - Angewandte Chemie, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanochemical conditions have been applied to an iridium (III)‐catalyzed C− H bond
amidation process for the first time. In the absence of solvent, the mechanochemical …