Photocatalysis in the life science industry

L Candish, KD Collins, GC Cook, JJ Douglas… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In the pursuit of new pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, chemists in the life science
industry require access to mild and robust synthetic methodologies to systematically modify …

A fruitful decade of organofluorine chemistry: new reagents and reactions

FL Qing, XY Liu, JA Ma, Q Shen, Q Song… - CCS …, 2022 - chinesechemsoc.org
The development of synthetic methods for the introduction of the fluorine atom and
fluoroalklyl groups into organic molecules has gained increased attention. Synthetic organic …

Contemporary synthetic strategies in organofluorine chemistry

R Britton, V Gouverneur, JH Lin, M Meanwell… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Fluorinated molecules have a wide range of applications and are used as medicines,
agrochemicals and refrigerants and in smartphone liquid crystal displays, photovoltaic solar …

Late-stage difluoromethylation: concepts, developments and perspective

JBI Sap, CF Meyer, NJW Straathof… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
This review describes the recent advances made in difluoromethylation processes based on
X–CF2H bond formation where X is C (sp), C (sp2), C (sp3), O, N or S, a field of research …

Desulfonylation via radical process: recent developments in organic synthesis

XQ Chu, D Ge, YY Cui, ZL Shen, CJ Li - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
As the “chemical chameleon”, sulfonyl-containing compounds and their variants have been
merged with various types of reactions for the efficient construction of diverse molecular …

Photoredox Catalysis for Building C–C Bonds from C(sp2)–H Bonds

CS Wang, PH Dixneuf, JF Soulé - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Transition metal-catalyzed C–H bond functionalizations have been the focus of intensive
research over the last decades for the formation of C–C bonds from unfunctionalized arenes …

Beyond classical sulfone chemistry: metal-and photocatalytic approaches for C–S bond functionalization of sulfones

J Corpas, SH Kim-Lee, P Mauleón… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The exceptional versatility of sulfones has been extensively exploited in organic synthesis
across several decades. Since the first demonstration in 2005 that sulfones can participate …

C3-selective trifluoromethylthiolation and difluoromethylthiolation of pyridines and pyridine drugs via dihydropyridine intermediates

XY Zhou, M Zhang, Z Liu, JH He… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report a method for C3-selective C–H tri-and difluoromethylthiolation of
pyridines. The method relies on borane-catalyzed pyridine hydroboration for generation of …

Difluoromethylation reactions of organic compounds

DE Yerien, S Barata‐Vallejo… - Chemistry–A European …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The relevance of the‐CF2H moiety has attracted considerable attention from organic
synthetic and medicinal chemistry communities, because this group can act as a more …

Direct evidence for excited ligand field state-based oxidative photoredox chemistry of a cobalt (III) polypyridyl photosensitizer

MM Alowakennu, A Ghosh… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Increasing interest in sustainable chemistry coupled with the quest to explore new reactivity
has spurred research on first-row transition metal complexes for potential applications in a …