HFIP in organic synthesis

HF Motiwala, AM Armaly, JG Cacioppo… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3-Hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) is a polar, strongly hydrogen bond-donating
solvent that has found numerous uses in organic synthesis due to its ability to stabilize ionic …

Technological innovations in photochemistry for organic synthesis: flow chemistry, high-throughput experimentation, scale-up, and photoelectrochemistry

L Buglioni, F Raymenants, A Slattery… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Photoinduced chemical transformations have received in recent years a tremendous amount
of attention, providing a plethora of opportunities to synthetic organic chemists. However …

Photoinduced borylation for the synthesis of organoboron compounds: focus review

YM Tian, XN Guo, H Braunschweig, U Radius… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Organoboron compounds have important synthetic value and can be applied in numerous
transformations. The development of practical and convenient ways to synthesize boronate …

Reductive electrophotocatalysis: merging electricity and light to achieve extreme reduction potentials

H Kim, H Kim, TH Lambert, S Lin - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We describe a new electrophotocatalytic strategy that harnesses the power of light and
electricity to generate an excited radical anion with a reducing potential of− 3.2 V vs SCE …

Hexafluoroisopropanol as a highly versatile solvent

I Colomer, AER Chamberlain, MB Haughey… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3-Hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) has recently become a very popular
solvent or additive with applications across the spectrum of chemistry. Analysis shows that it …

Transition-Metal-Free, Visible-Light-Enabled Decarboxylative Borylation of Aryl N-Hydroxyphthalimide Esters

L Candish, M Teders, F Glorius - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report a conceptually novel borylation reaction proceeding via a mild
photoinduced decarboxylation of redox-activated aromatic carboxylic acids. This work …

Metal‐Free Radical Borylation of Alkyl and Aryl Iodides

Y Cheng, C Mück‐Lichtenfeld, A Studer - Angewandte Chemie, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A metal‐free radical borylation of alkyl and aryl iodides with bis (catecholato) diboron
(B2cat2) as the boron source under mild conditions is introduced. The borylation reaction is …

Selective C− N borylation of alkyl amines promoted by Lewis base

J Hu, G Wang, S Li, Z Shi - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
An efficient method for the metal‐free deaminative borylation of alkylamines, using bis
(catecholato) diboron as the boron source, to directly synthesize various alkyl potassium …

Decarboxylative borylation of aliphatic esters under visible-light photoredox conditions

D Hu, L Wang, P Li - Organic letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
The conventional methods for preparing alkyl boronates often necessitate anhydrous and
demanding reaction conditions. Herein, a new, operationally simple decarboxylative …

Metal‐Free Stereoconvergent C− H Borylation of Enamides

T Wang, ZJ Wang, M Wang, L Wu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Enamides, functional derivatives of enamines, play a significant role as synthetic targets.
However, the stereoselective synthesis of these molecules has posed a longstanding …