Recent advances in dearomative partial reduction of benzenoid arenes

DH Liu, J Ma - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Dearomative partial reduction is an extraordinary approach for transforming benzenoid
arenes and has been well‐known for many decades, as exemplified by the dehydrogenation …

Meeting the UN sustainable development goals with mechanochemistry

J Alić, MC Schlegel, F Emmerling… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Chemistry traditionally relies on reactions in solution, but this method is increasingly
problematic due to the scale of chemical processes and their economic and environmental …

Mechanochemical Approach for Air‐Tolerant and Extremely Fast Lithium‐Based Birch Reductions in Minutes

Y Gao, K Kubota, H Ito - Angewandte Chemie, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Birch reduction has been widely used in organic synthesis for over half a century as a
powerful method to dearomatize arenes into 1, 4‐cyclohexadiene derivatives. However, the …

Mechanochemical Birch reduction with low reactive alkaline earth metals

JV Nallaparaju, R Satsi, D Merzhyievskyi… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Birch reduction and similar dissolved metal‐type transformations hold significant importance
in the organic synthesis toolbox. Historically, the field has been dominated by alkali metal …

Alkali metal reduction of alkali metal cations

KG Pearce, HY Liu, SE Neale, HM Goff… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Counter to synthetic convention and expectation provided by the relevant standard reduction
potentials, the chloroberyllate,[{SiNDipp} BeClLi] 2 [{SiNDipp}={CH2SiMe2N (Dipp)} 2; …

s-Block metal complexes of superbulky (t Bu 3 Si) 2 N−: a new weakly coordinating anion?

C Knüpfer, L Klerner, J Mai, J Langer, S Harder - Chemical Science, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Sterically hindered amide anions have found widespread application as deprotonation
agents or as ligands to stabilize metals in unusual coordination geometries or oxidation …

Reduction of K+ or Li+ in the Heterobimetallic Electride K+[LiN(SiMe3)2]e

N Davison, PG Waddell, E Lu - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Given their very negative redox potential (eg, Li+→ Li (0),− 3.04 V; K+→ K (0),− 2.93 V),
chemical reduction of Group-1 metal cations is one of the biggest challenges in inorganic …

The quest for organo-alkali metal monomers: unscrambling the structure–reactivity relationship

N Davison, E Lu - Dalton Transactions, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Organo-alkali metal reagents are essential tools in synthetic chemistry. Alkali metal
organometallics aggregate in solution and solid-state forming clusters and polymers. The …

Mechanochemical Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of a Room Temperature Stable Calcium Electride

AWJ Bowles, JA Quirk, Y Liu, GH Morritt… - Journal of the …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
A new calcium-based Room temperature Stable Electride (RoSE), K [{Ca [N (Mes)(SiMe3)] 3
(e–)} 2K3](2), is successfully synthesized from the reaction of a calcium tris-amide,[Ca {N …

Multi-dimensional inorganic electrides for energy conversion and storage

W Meng, J Wang, X Wang, W Wang, X Zhang… - Journal of Materials …, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Reflecting on the course of global development, the progress of high-performance new
materials has played a pivotal role in human history. Researchers are vigorously develo** …