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 …

Toolbox for distal C–H bond functionalizations in organic molecules

SK Sinha, S Guin, S Maiti, JP Biswas, S Porey… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal-catalyzed C–H activation has developed a contemporary approach to the
omnipresent area of retrosynthetic disconnection. Scientific researchers have been tempted …

Nitrogen-Centered Radicals in Functionalization of sp2 Systems: Generation, Reactivity, and Applications in Synthesis

C Pratley, S Fenner, JA Murphy - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The chemistry of nitrogen-centered radicals (NCRs) has plentiful applications in organic
synthesis, and they continue to expand as our understanding of these reactive species …

Late-stage C–H functionalization offers new opportunities in drug discovery

L Guillemard, N Kaplaneris, L Ackermann… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Over the past decade, the landscape of molecular synthesis has gained major impetus by
the introduction of late-stage functionalization (LSF) methodologies. C–H functionalization …

Late-stage functionalization

J Börgel, T Ritter - Chem, 2020 - cell.com
The term late-stage functionalization (LSF) is recent but is now frequently used in the field of
organic methodology development to describe transformations on complex molecules. Such …

Hexafluoroisopropanol: the magical solvent for Pd-catalyzed C–H activation

T Bhattacharya, A Ghosh, D Maiti - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Among numerous solvents available for chemical transformations, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3-hexafluoro-
2-propanol (popularly known as HFIP) has attracted enough attention of the scientific …

Catalytic electrophilic halogenation of arenes with electron-withdrawing substituents

W Wang, X Yang, R Dai, Z Yan, J Wei… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The electrophilic halogenation of arenes is perhaps the simplest method to prepare aryl
halides, which are important structural motifs in agrochemicals, materials, and …

Photocatalytic generation of aminium radical cations for C–N bond formation

JM Ganley, PRD Murray, RR Knowles - ACS catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Aminium radical cations have been extensively studied as electrophilic aminating species
that readily participate in C–N bond forming processes with alkenes and arenes. However …

Enzymatic Primary Amination of Benzylic and Allylic C(sp3)–H Bonds

ZJ Jia, S Gao, FH Arnold - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Aliphatic primary amines are prevalent in natural products, pharmaceuticals, and functional
materials. While a plethora of processes are reported for their synthesis, methods that …

[HTML][HTML] Late-stage modification of bioactive compounds: Improving druggability through efficient molecular editing

T Huo, X Zhao, Z Cheng, J Wei, M Zhu, X Dou… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2024 - Elsevier
Synthetic chemistry plays an indispensable role in drug discovery, contributing to hit
compounds identification, lead compounds optimization, candidate drugs preparation, and …