Organic synthesis using nitroxides

D Leifert, A Studer - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nitroxides, also known as nitroxyl radicals, are long-lived or stable radicals with the general
structure R1R2N–O•. The spin distribution over the nitroxide N and O atoms contributes to …

Organic synthesis with the most abundant transition metal–iron: from rust to multitasking catalysts

S Rana, JP Biswas, S Paul, A Paik… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In industries and academic laboratories, several late transition metal-catalyzed prerequisite
reactions are widely performed during single and multistep synthesis. However, besides the …

Aerobic oxidation catalysis with stable radicals

Q Cao, LM Dornan, L Rogan, NL Hughes… - Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Selective oxidation reactions are challenging when carried out on an industrial scale. Many
traditional methods are undesirable from an environmental or safety point of view. There is a …

Olefinic C–H functionalization through radical alkenylation

S Tang, K Liu, C Liu, A Lei - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Direct olefinic C–H functionalization represents the ideal way of introducing an alkenyl
group into organic molecules. A well-known process is the Heck reaction, which involves …

TEMPO in chemical transformations: from homogeneous to heterogeneous

HA Beejapur, Q Zhang, K Hu, L Zhu, J Wang… - ACS Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
The organic nitroxyl radical, TEMPO (2, 2, 6, 6-tetramethylpiperidine-N-oxyl), finds a variety
of industrial applications for chemical transformations. Because of economic and …

Iron-catalyzed/mediated oxidative transformation of C–H bonds

F Jia, Z Li - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
It has been a long time since C–H bond oxidations first attracted chemists' attention. In the
last several decades, C–H bond oxidation has been extensively investigated and applied in …

Revealing the metal-like behavior of iodine: an iodide-catalysed radical oxidative alkenylation

S Tang, Y Wu, W Liao, R Bai, C Liu, A Lei - Chemical Communications, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, we have described an alternative alkenylation approach to illustrate the metal-
like behaviour of iodine in cross-coupling reactions. Alkenylation could proceed through …

Recent Advances in Mono‐and Difunctionalization of Unactivated Olefins

M Patel, B Desai, A Sheth… - Asian Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Olefins are synthetically useful building blocks in modern organic synthesis. Direct
functionalization of olefins; represent one of the most explored transformations in synthetic …

KIO3-Catalyzed Aerobic Cross-Coupling Reactions of Enaminones and Thiophenols: Synthesis of Polyfunctionalized Alkenes by Metal-Free C–H Sulfenylation

JP Wan, S Zhong, L **e, X Cao, Y Liu, L Wei - Organic letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of polyfunctionalized aminothioalkenes has been realized via the direct C–H
sulfenylation of enaminones and analogous enamines. These cross-coupling reactions …

Nitro-Spirocyclization of Biaryl Ynones with tert-Butyl Nitrite: Access to NO2-Substituted Spiro[5,5]trienones

Y Li, L Li, C Guo, Q Yan, H Zhou, Y Wang… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A metal/peroxide-free involved simple cascade 6-exo-trig spirocyclization of tert-butyl nitrite
with biaryl ynones has been finished, which resulted in various NO2-modified spiro [5, 5] …