Visible light-promoted ring-opening functionalization of three-membered carbo-and heterocycles

J Xuan, XK He, WJ **ao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to their inherent ring strain, three-membered carbocyclic-and heterocyclic ring
structures are versatile synthetic building blocks. Traditional ring-opening methods of these …

Organocatalytic carbon–sulfur bond-forming reactions

P Chauhan, S Mahajan, D Enders - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Carbon− heteroatom bond formations are very important reactions in organic synthesis and
have attracted the interest of many synthetic organic chemists, leading them to develop new …

Aziridine synthesis by coupling amines and alkenes via an electrogenerated dication

DE Holst, DJ Wang, MJ Kim, IA Guzei, ZK Wickens - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Aziridines—three-membered nitrogen-containing cyclic molecules—are important synthetic
targets. Their substantial ring strain and resultant proclivity towards ring-opening reactions …

Palladium‐Catalyzed Fluorinative Bifunctionalization of Aziridines and Azetidines with gem‐Difluorocyclopropanes

D Li, C Shen, Z Si, L Liu - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An unprecedented Pd‐catalyzed fluorinative bifunctionalization of aziridines and azetidines
was successfully developed via regioselective C− C and C− F bond cleavage of gem …

Regio-and stereoselective access to highly substituted vinylphosphine oxides via metal-free electrophilic phosphonoiodination of alkynes

B Dong, F Zhao, WX Lv, YG Liu, D Wei, J Wu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In general, the P-centered ring-opening of quaternary phosphirenium salts (QPrS)
predominantly leads to hydrophosphorylated products, while the C-centered ring-opening is …

3D multi-wall perforated nanocellulose-based polyethylenimine aerogels for ultrahigh efficient and reversible removal of Cu (II) ions from water

L Mo, H Pang, Y Tan, S Zhang, J Li - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
The utilization of easily recyclable biosorbent material with ultrahigh adsorption capacity for
the removal of heavy metal ions from aqueous environments is an important step towards …

Nickel-catalyzed enantioselective reductive cross-coupling of styrenyl aziridines

BP Woods, M Orlandi, CY Huang… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
A Ni-catalyzed reductive cross-coupling of styrenyl aziridines with aryl iodides is reported.
This reaction proceeds by a stereoconvergent mechanism and is thus amenable to …

Metal cations from sacrificial anodes act as a lewis acid co-catalyst in electrochemical cross-coupling of aryl bromides and aziridines

GS Kumar, C Zhu, R Kancherla, PS Shinde… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
An efficient method for the reductive cross-electrophile coupling of aziridines with aryl
halides using nickel electrocatalysis is reported. This reaction provides valuable …

Gold-catalyzed conversion of highly strained compounds

D Li, W Zang, MJ Bird, CJT Hyland, M Shi - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The past decade has witnessed the golden age of homogeneous gold-catalyzed reactions,
especially those that involve the transformation of highly strained molecules into complex …

Synthesis and applications of vinylaziridines and ethynylaziridines

H Ohno - Chemical Reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Among the variously functionalized aziridines, 1 vinylaziridines and ethynylaziridines are
increasingly being exploited as versatile building blocks in organic synthesis. Compounds of …