Organocatalytic enantioselective synthesis of axially chiral molecules: Development of strategies and skeletons

JK Cheng, SH **ang, B Tan - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The growing importance of axially chiral architectures in different scientific
domains has unveiled shortcomings in terms of efficient synthetic access and skeletal …

Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed carbene insertion to C–H bonds

Y He, Z Huang, K Wu, J Ma, YG Zhou… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
C–H functionalization has been emerging as a powerful method to establish carbon–carbon
and carbon–heteroatom bonds. Many efforts have been devoted to transition-metal …

Regioselective aliphatic C–H functionalization using frustrated radical pairs

Z Lu, M Ju, Y Wang, JM Meinhardt… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) are well documented for the activation of small
molecules such as dihydrogen and carbon dioxide,,–. Although canonical FLP chemistry is …

Asymmetric catalytic rearrangements with α-diazocarbonyl compounds

S Dong, X Liu, X Feng - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus α-Diazocarbonyl compounds serve as nucleophiles, dipoles, carbene
precursors, and rare electrophiles, enabling a vast array of organic transformations under …

Electrophotocatalytic decoupled radical relay enables highly efficient and enantioselective benzylic C–H functionalization

W Fan, X Zhao, Y Deng, P Chen… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Asymmetric sp3 C–H functionalization has been demonstrated to substantially expedite
target molecule synthesis, spanning from feedstocks upgradation to late-stage modification …

Diversification of aliphatic C–H bonds in small molecules and polyolefins through radical chain transfer

TJ Fazekas, JW Alty, EK Neidhart, AS Miller… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The ability to selectively introduce diverse functionality onto hydrocarbons is of substantial
value in the synthesis of both small molecules and polymers. Herein, we report an approach …

Dirhodium tetracarboxylates as catalysts for selective intermolecular C–H functionalization

HML Davies, K Liao - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
C–H functionalization has become widely recognized as an exciting new strategy for the
synthesis of complex molecular targets. Instead of relying on functional groups as the …

Catalytic alkylation of unactivated C (sp 3)–H bonds for C (sp 3)–C (sp 3) bond formation

Z Chen, MY Rong, J Nie, XF Zhu, BF Shi… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The construction of carbon–carbon bonds is a central tenet of modern synthetic chemistry.
Metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization can serve as a particularly powerful tool for achieving …

Photocatalytic three-component asymmetric sulfonylation via direct C(sp3)-H functionalization

S Cao, W Hong, Z Ye, L Gong - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
The direct and selective C (sp3)-H functionalization of cycloalkanes and alkanes is a highly
useful process in organic synthesis owing to the low-cost starting materials, the high step …

Cobalt-catalysed C–H methylation for late-stage drug diversification

SD Friis, MJ Johansson, L Ackermann - Nature Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
The magic methyl effect is well acknowledged in medicinal chemistry, but despite its
significance, accessing such analogues via derivatization at a late stage remains a pivotal …