Desulfonylation via radical process: recent developments in organic synthesis

XQ Chu, D Ge, YY Cui, ZL Shen, CJ Li - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
As the “chemical chameleon”, sulfonyl-containing compounds and their variants have been
merged with various types of reactions for the efficient construction of diverse molecular …

Discovery and characterization of an acridine radical photoreductant

IA MacKenzie, L Wang, NPR Onuska, OF Williams… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Photoinduced electron transfer (PET) is a phenomenon whereby the absorption of light by a
chemical species provides an energetic driving force for an electron-transfer reaction,,–. This …

Synthesis of Axially Chiral N‐Arylindoles via Atroposelective Cyclization of Ynamides Catalyzed by Chiral Brønsted Acids

ZS Wang, LJ Zhu, CT Li, BY Liu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, asymmetric catalysis of ynamides has attracted much attention, but these
reactions mostly constructed central chirality, except for a few examples on the synthesis of …

CdS quantum dots as potent photoreductants for organic chemistry enabled by auger processes

JK Widness, DG Enny… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Strong reducing agents (<− 2.0 V vs saturated calomel electrode (SCE)) enable a wide array
of useful organic chemistry, but suffer from a variety of limitations. Stoichiometric metallic …

Synthetic and mechanistic aspects of sulfonyl migrations

AJ Flynn, A Ford, AR Maguire - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past 20 years reports of sulfonyl migrations have appeared, frequently described as
'unusual'and 'unexpected'. This comprehensive review compiles, for the first time, sulfonyl …

A facile and versatile electro-reductive system for hydrodefunctionalization under ambient conditions

B Huang, L Guo, W **a - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A general electrochemical system for reductive hydrodefunctionalization is described,
employing the inexpensive and easily available triethylamine (Et3N) as a sacrificial …

Cascade cyclization of azadienes with difluoroenoxysilanes: a one-pot formal [4+ 2] approach to fluorinated polyfused heterocycles

J Li, S Liu, R Zhong, Y Yang, J Xu, J Yang, H Ding… - Organic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A TfOH-promoted synthesis of fluorinated polyfused heterocycles via the cascade cyclization
of azadienes and difluoroenoxysilanes has been developed, leading to the facile …

Modular Two‐Step Access to π‐Extended Naphthyridine Systems—Potent Building Blocks for Organic Electronics

F Stuck, MC Dietl, M Meißner… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient synthetic approaches for the incorporation of nitrogen into polyaromatic compounds
(PACs) in different patterns as stabilising moiety for π‐extended systems and modification …

Transition-Metal-Free and Visible-Light-Mediated Desulfonylation and Dehalogenation Reactions: Hantzsch Ester Anion as Electron and Hydrogen Atom Donor

MD Heredia, WD Guerra, SM Barolo… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Novel approaches for N-and O-desulfonylation under room temperature (rt) and transition-
metal-free conditions have been developed. The first methodology involves the …

Photoredox-Catalyzed Tandem Cyclization of Enaminones with N-Sulfonylaminopyridinium Salts toward the Synthesis of 3-Sulfonaminated Chromones

W Hu, X Diao, J Yuan, W Liang, W Yang… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A photoredox-catalyzed intermolecular tandem sulfonamination/cyclization of enaminones
was realized by using N-aminopyridinium salts as the sulfonaminated reagents without …