Unlocking the potential of metal ligand cooperation for enantioselective transformations

TF Ramspoth, J Kootstra… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–ligand cooperation, in which both the metal and the ligand of a transition metal
complex actively participate in chemical transformations leading to enhanced reactivity or …

Quantum mechanical investigations of organocatalysis: mechanisms, reactivities, and selectivities

PHY Cheong, CY Legault, JM Um… - Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Organocatalysis has captured the imagination of a significant group of synthetic chemists.
Much of the mechanistic understanding of these reactions has come from computational …

Copper-catalyzed enantioselective radical 1, 4-difunctionalization of 1, 3-enynes

Y Zeng, MF Chiou, X Zhu, J Cao, D Lv… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Chiral allenes are important structural motifs frequently found in natural products,
pharmaceuticals, and other organic compounds. Asymmetric 1, 4-difunctionalization of 1, 3 …

Photoexcited Palladium-Catalyzed Deracemization of Allenes

C Song, X Bai, B Li, Y Dang, S Yu - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The different enantiomers of specific chiral molecules frequently exhibit disparate biological,
physiological, or pharmacological properties. Therefore, the efficient synthesis of single …

Copper-Catalyzed Radical 1,4-Difunctionalization of 1,3-Enynes with Alkyl Diacyl Peroxides and N-Fluorobenzenesulfonimide

X Zhu, W Deng, MF Chiou, C Ye, W Jian… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Many reactions involving allenyl ion species have been studied, but reactions involving
allenyl radicals are less well understood, perhaps because of the inconvenience associated …

Electrochemical chemo-and regioselective arylalkylation, dialkylation and hydro (deutero) alkylation of 1, 3-enynes

C Zhu, H Chen, H Yue, M Rue** - Nature Synthesis, 2023 - nature.com
The development of general and efficient strategies for the construction of allenes is
important due to their wide applications. Although few protocols have been developed via …

How easy are the syntheses of allenes?

S Yu, S Ma - Chemical Communications, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Allenes have proven themselves to be valuable building blocks toward complex molecular
targets, revealing novel applications in natural product synthesis, pharmaceutical chemistry …

Recent advances in catalytic asymmetric synthesis of allenes

WD Chu, Y Zhang, J Wang - Catalysis Science & Technology, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Allene moieties with axial chirality are featured in many natural products with biological
activities. They also serve as unique building blocks in organic synthesis and as chiral …

Organocatalytic synthesis of chiral tetrasubstituted allenes from racemic propargylic alcohols

D Qian, LL Wu, Z Lin, J Sun - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Although chiral allene preparation via formal SN2'nucleophilic substitutions of
enantioenriched propargylic derivatives or metal-catalyzed reactions of racemic propargylic …

Conquering three-carbon axial chirality of allenes

J Ye, S Ma - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
While one-carbon central chirality of organic molecules has been recognized and
extensively studied for more than a century, far less attention has been paid to three-carbon …