Manganese-catalyzed hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, and hydroelementation reactions

K Das, S Waiba, A Jana, B Maji - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The emerging field of organometallic catalysis has shifted towards research on Earth-
abundant transition metals due to their ready availability, economic advantage, and novel …

Borrowing hydrogen for organic synthesis

BG Reed-Berendt, DE Latham, MB Dambatta… - ACS Central …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Borrowing hydrogen is a process that is used to diversify the synthetic utility of commodity
alcohols. A catalyst first oxidizes an alcohol by removing hydrogen to form a reactive …

Towards ligand simplification in manganese-catalyzed hydrogenation and hydrosilylation processes

ES Gulyaeva, ES Osipova, R Buhaibeh… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapidly emerging application of organometallic manganese complexes incorporating less
elaborated mono-and bidentate donor ligands in catalytic hydrogenation, transfer …

Divergent Synthesis of Alcohols and Ketones via Cross‐Coupling of Secondary Alcohols under Manganese Catalysis

F Sun, J Huang, Z Wei, C Tang, W Liu - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A homogeneous manganese‐catalyzed cross‐coupling of two secondary alcohols for the
divergent synthesis of γ‐disubstituted alcohols and β‐disubstituted ketones is reported …

Advancements in multifunctional manganese complexes for catalytic hydrogen transfer reactions

K Das, MK Barman, B Maji - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalytic hydrogen transfer reactions have enormous academic and industrial applications
for the production of diverse molecular scaffolds. Over the past few decades, precious late …

Phosphine-Free Manganese Catalyst Enables Selective Transfer Hydrogenation of Nitriles to Primary and Secondary Amines Using Ammonia–Borane

K Sarkar, K Das, A Kundu, D Adhikari, B Maji - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Herein we report the synthesis of primary and secondary amines by nitrile hydrogenation,
employing a borrowing hydrogenation strategy. A class of phosphine-free manganese (I) …

Selective catalytic synthesis of α-alkylated ketones and β-disubstituted ketones via acceptorless dehydrogenative cross-coupling of alcohols

D Bhattacharyya, BK Sarmah, S Nandi… - Organic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Herein, a phosphine-free pincer ruthenium (III) catalyzed β-alkylation of secondary alcohols
with primary alcohols to α-alkylated ketones and two different secondary alcohols to β …

Recent advances for alkylation of ketones and secondary alcohols using alcohols in homogeneous catalysis

DY Yang, H Wang, CR Chang - Advanced Synthesis & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The alkylation of ketones or secondary alcohols using alcohols as alkylating agents via
hydrogen borrowing strategy presents a powerful method for the synthesis of ɑ‐alkylated …

α-Methylation of Ketones and Indoles Catalyzed by a Manganese(I) PCNHCP Pincer Complex with Methanol as a C1 Source

R Thenarukandiyil, R Kamte, S Garhwal… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Acceptorless alcohol dehydrogenation is a powerful reaction in sustainable synthesis. When
combined in a tandem reaction with dehydrogenative coupling or hydrogen borrowing …

Blue-light-induced iron-catalyzed α-alkylation of ketones

MS Abdallah, N Joly, S Gaillard, A Poater… - Organic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report a visible-light-induced iron-catalyzed α-alkylation of ketones. The photocatalytic
system is based on the single diaminocyclopentadienone iron tricarbonyl complex. Two …