To be or not to be metal-free: trends and advances in coupling chemistries

Reactive intermediates in catalytic alkenylation; pathways for Mizoroki–Heck, oxidative Heck and Fujiwara–Moritani reactions

(2013) Waqar Rauf et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Enantioselective Direct α-Amination of Aldehydes via a Photoredox Mechanism: A Strategy for Asymmetric Amine Fragment Coupling

(2013) Giuseppe Cecere et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Recent advances in transition-metal-free direct C–C and C–heteroatom bond forming reactions

(2013) Vaibhav P. Mehta et al.   RSC Advances

Direct Functionalization Processes: A Journey from Palladium to Copper to Iron to Nickel to Metal-Free Coupling Reactions

(2012) James J. Mousseau et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Metal-Free, Visible-Light-Mediated Direct C–H Arylation of Heteroarenes with Aryl Diazonium Salts

(2012) Durga Prasad Hari et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

35 years of palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling with Grignard reagents: how far have we come?

(2011) Christiane E. I. Knappke et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

The asymmetric Heck and related reactions

(2011) Dennis Mc Cartney et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Transition metal-catalyzed arylation of unactivated C(sp3)–H bonds

(2011) Olivier Baudoin   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Recent advances in the transition metal-catalyzed twofold oxidative C–H bond activation strategy for C–C and C–N bond formation

(2011) Seung Hwan Cho et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Nanocatalysts for Suzuki cross-coupling reactions

(2011) Aziz Fihri et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Microwave-assisted C–C bond forming cross-coupling reactions: an overview

(2011) Vaibhav P. Mehta et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Recent advances in Sonogashira reactions

(2011) Rafael Chinchilla et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

N-Tosylhydrazones: versatile reagents for metal-catalyzed and metal-free cross-coupling reactions

(2011) Zhihui Shao et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Towards Greener and More Efficient C-C and C-Heteroatom Couplings: Present and Future

(2011) Carolina Vargas et al.   CURRENT ORGANIC SYNTHESIS

Pd-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Coupling of Propiolic Acids: One-Pot Synthesis of 1,4-Disubstituted 1,3-Diynes via Sonogashira−Homocoupling Sequence

(2011) Jihye Park et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Trifluoromethylation of arenes and heteroarenes by means of photoredox catalysis

(2011) David A. Nagib et al.   NATURE

Transition-Metal-Free Formal Sonogashira Coupling and α-Carbonyl Arylation Reactions

(2010) Birgit Prüger et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

A Concise, Metal-Free Approach to the Synthesis of Oxime Ethers from Cross-Dehydrogenative-Coupling of sp3C-H Bonds with Oximes

(2010) Jun Jin et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Transition-Metal-Free Homocoupling of 1-Haloalkynes: A Facile Synthesis of Symmetrical 1,3-Diynes

(2010) Zhengwang Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC 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

Iron-Catalyzed Direct Arylation through an Aryl Radical Transfer Pathway

(2010) Frédéric Vallée et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

When is free really free?

(2010) Nicholas E. Leadbeater   Nature Chemistry

A concentric planar doubly π-aromatic B19− cluster

(2010) Wei Huang et al.   Nature Chemistry

Transition-Metal-Free Sonogashira-Type Coupling ofortho-Substituted Aryl and Alkynyl Grignard Reagents by Using 2,2,6,6-Tetramethylpiperidine-N-oxyl Radical as an Oxidant

(2010) Modhu Sudan Maji et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Metal-Free Coupling of Azoles with 2- and 3-Haloindoles Providing Access to Novel 2- or 3-(Azol-1-yl)indole Derivatives

(2010) Martin Poirier et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Metal-free oxidative C–C bond formation of active methylenic sp3 C–H bonds with benzylic sp3 C–H and allylic sp3 C–H bonds mediated by DDQ

(2010) D. Ramesh et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Samarium Powder-Catalyzed Palladium-Free and Ligand-Free Sonogashira Coupling Reactions

(2009) Jincheng Mao et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

A Highly Efficient, Metal-Free and Convenient Diarylallyl Ether/Thioether FormationviaOxidative C-H Activation

(2009) Yan Li et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Retraction: Iron-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reaction

(2009) David Bézier et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

On the Role of Metal Contaminants in Catalyses with FeCl3

(2009) Stephen L. Buchwald et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Clean and Direct Synthesis of α,α′-Bithiophenes and Bipyrroles by Metal-Free Oxidative Coupling Using Recyclable Hypervalent Iodine(III) Reagents

(2009) Toshifumi Dohi et al.   CHEMICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN

Metal-Free Oxidative Cross-Coupling of Unfunctionalized Aromatic Compounds

(2009) Yasuyuki Kita et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Metal-free carbon–carbon bond-forming reductive coupling between boronic acids and tosylhydrazones

(2009) José Barluenga et al.   Nature Chemistry

Efficient solvent- and metal-free Sonogashira protocol catalysed by 1,4-diazabicyclo(2.2.2) octane (DABCO)

(2009) Rafael Luque et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Retraction notice to “trans-Tetrakis(pyridine)dichloroiron(II) as catalyst for Suzuki cross-coupling in ethanol and water” [Tetrahedron Lett. 49 (2008) 6679]

(2009) Tuula Kylmälä et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Advances in Molecular Design and Synthesis of Regioregular Polythiophenes

(2008) Itaru Osaka et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Highly Efficient Metal-Free Cross-Coupling by CH Activation between Allylic and Active Methylenic Compounds Promoted by DDQ

(2008) Dongping Cheng et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Catalysts for the Sonogashira Coupling-The Crownless Again Shall Be King

(2008) Herbert Plenio   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Coupling of Nitrogen Heteroaromatics and Alkanes without Transition Metals: A New Oxidative Cross-Coupling at CH/CH Bonds

(2008) Guojun Deng et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

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

(2008) Shuichi Yanagisawa et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Syntheses of Substituted 3-Methyleneisoindolin-1-ones By a Palladium-Catalyzed Sonogashira Coupling−Carbonylation−Hydroamination Sequence in Phosphonium Salt-Based Ionic liquids

(2008) Hong Cao et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Merging Photoredox Catalysis with Organocatalysis: The Direct Asymmetric Alkylation of Aldehydes

(2008) D. A. Nicewicz et al.   SCIENCE

Transition metal-free amination of aryl halides—A simple and reliable method for the efficient and high-yielding synthesis of N-arylated amines

(2008) Jeanne L. Bolliger et al.   TETRAHEDRON