The electron is a catalyst

Transition Metal-Mediated Direct CH Arylation of Heteroarenes Involving Aryl Radicals

(2014) Hélène Bonin et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Redox catalysis in organic electrosynthesis: basic principles and recent developments

(2014) Robert Francke et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

SET-Induced Biaryl Cross-Coupling: An SRN1 Reaction

(2014) Brandon E. Haines et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

The Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling of C sp 3H Bonds: A Versatile Strategy for CC Bond Formations

(2013) Simon A. Girard et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Base-Catalyzed Synthesis of Substituted Indazoles under Mild, Transition-Metal-Free Conditions

(2013) Isabelle Thomé et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

6-Trifluoromethyl-Phenanthridines through Radical Trifluoromethylation of Isonitriles

(2013) Bo Zhang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A macrocyclic aromatic pyridone pentamer as a highly efficient organocatalyst for the direct arylations of unactivated arenes

(2013) Huaiqing Zhao et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Single electron transfer-induced cross-coupling reaction of alkenyl halides with aryl Grignard reagents

(2013) Eiji Shirakawa et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Visible Light Photoredox Catalysis with Transition Metal Complexes: Applications in Organic Synthesis

(2013) Christopher K. Prier et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

A Radical Process towards the Development of Transition-Metal-Free Aromatic CarbonCarbon Bond-Forming Reactions

(2013) Tek Long Chan et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Dehydrogenative Functionalization of C(sp2)H Bonds

(2013) Yinuo Wu et al.   Chemistry-An Asian Journal

Single Electron-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions of Aryl Halides

(2013) Eiji Shirakawa   JOURNAL OF SYNTHETIC ORGANIC CHEMISTRY JAPAN

Room-Temperature Photoinduced Direct C–H-Arylation via Base-Promoted Homolytic Aromatic Substitution

(2013) María E. Budén et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Phenyl Hydrazine as Initiator for Direct Arene C–H Arylation via Base Promoted Homolytic Aromatic Substitution

(2013) Abhishek Dewanji et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

PhI(OAc)2-Mediated Synthesis of 6-(Trifluoromethyl)phenanthridines by Oxidative Cyclization of 2-Isocyanobiphenyls with CF3SiMe3 under Metal-Free Conditions

(2013) Qile Wang et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Cross Dehydrogenative Coupling via Base-Promoted Homolytic Aromatic Substitution (BHAS): Synthesis of Fluorenones and Xanthones

(2013) Sebastian Wertz et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Synthesis of Alkyl Aryl Ketones by Pd/Light Induced Carbonylative Cross-Coupling of Alkyl Iodides and Arylboronic Acids

(2013) Shuhei Sumino et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

6-Aroylated Phenanthridines via Base Promoted Homolytic Aromatic Substitution (BHAS)

(2013) Dirk Leifert et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Iodine in Modern Oxidation Catalysis

(2013) Boris Nachtsheim et al.   SYNTHESIS-STUTTGART

Organic super-electron-donors: initiators in transition metal-free haloarene–arene coupling

(2013) Shengze Zhou et al.   Chemical Science

Transition-Metal-Free Alkoxycarbonylation of Aryl Halides

(2012) Hua Zhang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A “Renaissance” in Radical Trifluoromethylation

(2012) Armido Studer   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Single electron transfer-induced Grignard cross-coupling involving ion radicals as exclusive intermediates

(2012) Nanase Uchiyama et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Transition-metal-free Coupling Reactions of Aryl Halides

(2012) Eiji Shirakawa et al.   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Free at last!

(2012) Dennis P. Curran   Nature Chemistry

Synthesis of fluorenones viaquaternary ammonium salt-promoted intramolecular dehydrogenative arylation of aldehydes

(2012) Zhuangzhi Shi et al.   Chemical Science

Cross-Coupling of Aryl Grignard Reagents with Aryl Iodides and Bromides through SRN1 Pathway

(2011) Eiji Shirakawa et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Organocatalysis and CH Activation Meet Radical- and Electron-Transfer Reactions

(2011) Armido Studer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Mizoroki-Heck-Type Reaction Mediated by Potassium tert-Butoxide

(2011) Eiji Shirakawa et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

tert-Butoxide-Mediated CH Bond Arylation of Aromatic Compounds with Haloarenes

(2011) Shuichi Yanagisawa et al.   ChemCatChem

Potassium tert-butoxide mediated Heck-type cyclization/isomerization–benzofurans from organocatalytic radical cross-coupling reactions

(2011) Magnus Rueping et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Catalytic Dehydrogenative Cross-Coupling: Forming Carbon−Carbon Bonds by Oxidizing Two Carbon−Hydrogen Bonds

(2011) Charles S. Yeung et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Direct Arylation of Alkenes with Aryl Iodides/Bromides through an Organocatalytic Radical Process

(2011) Chang-Liang Sun et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Synthesis of α-CF3-Substituted Carbonyl Compounds with Relative and Absolute Stereocontrol Using Electrophilic CF3-Transfer Reagents

(2011) Václav Matoušek et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Innate C-H trifluoromethylation of heterocycles

(2011) Y. Ji et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Visible light photoredox catalysis: applications in organic synthesis

(2010) Jagan M. R. Narayanam et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Electrophilic trifluoromethylation of arenes and N-heteroarenes using hypervalent iodine reagents

(2010) Matthias S. Wiehn et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUORINE CHEMISTRY

tert-Butoxide-Mediated Arylation of Benzene with Aryl Halides in the Presence of a Catalytic 1,10-Phenanthroline Derivative

(2010) Eiji Shirakawa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Organocatalysis in Cross-Coupling: DMEDA-Catalyzed Direct C−H Arylation of Unactivated Benzene

(2010) Wei Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

An efficient organocatalytic method for constructing biaryls through aromatic C–H activation

(2010) Chang-Liang Sun et al.   Nature Chemistry

Synthesis of Carbazoles by Intramolecular Arylation of Diarylamide Anions

(2009) María E. Budén et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling (CDC): Exploring C−C Bond Formations beyond Functional Group Transformations

(2008) Chao-Jun Li   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Potassiumt-Butoxide Alone Can Promote the Biaryl Coupling of Electron-Deficient Nitrogen Heterocycles and Haloarenes

(2008) Shuichi Yanagisawa et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS