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

Metal-Free Reductive Cleavage of Benzylic Esters and Ethers: Fragmentations Result from Single and Double Electron Transfers

(2013) Eswararao Doni 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

Simple alcohols promoted direct C–H arylation of unactivated arenes with aryl halides

(2013) Wei Liu et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

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

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

Transition-Metal-Free Alkoxycarbonylation of Aryl Halides

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

Metal-free arylation of benzene and pyridine promoted by amino-linked nitrogen heterocyclic carbenes

(2012) Wen-Ching Chen et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Transition-metal-free highly chemo- and regioselective arylation of unactivated arenes with aryl halides over recyclable heterogeneous catalysts

(2012) Hongli Liu et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Transition-metal-free Coupling Reactions of Aryl Halides

(2012) Eiji Shirakawa et al.   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Direct Arylation of Benzene with Aryl Bromides using High-Temperature/High-Pressure Process Windows: Expanding the Scope of CH Activation Chemistry

(2012) Bartholomäus Pieber et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Recent Progress in the Research of thet-BuOK-Mediated Coupling Reactions to Form Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bonds

(2012) Lianggui Wang et al.   CHINESE JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Proline Catalyzes Direct C–H Arylations of Unactivated Arenes

(2012) Kouichi Tanimoro et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Intramolecular Direct C–H Bond Arylation from Aryl Chlorides: A Transition-Metal-Free Approach for Facile Access of Phenanthridines

(2012) Yinuo Wu et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Transition-Metal-Free Intramolecular N-Arylations

(2012) Isabelle Thomé et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

KOtBu Mediated Synthesis of Phenanthridinones and Dibenzoazepinones

(2012) Bhagat Singh Bhakuni et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Intramolecular Direct Dehydrohalide Coupling Promoted by KOtBu: Total Synthesis of Amaryllidaceae Alkaloids Anhydrolycorinone and Oxoassoanine

(2012) Subhadip De et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Free porphyrin catalyzed direct C–H arylation of benzene with aryl halides

(2012) Yeuk Sze Ng et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Imidazole-derived carbenes and their elusive tetraazafulvalene dimers

(2012) Phillip I. Jolly et al.   Chemical Science

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

Direct arylation of unactivated aromatic C–H bonds catalyzed by a stable organic radical

(2011) Guo-Ping Yong et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Neocuproine–KOtBu promoted intramolecular cross coupling to approach fused rings

(2011) Chang-Liang Sun et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

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

(2011) Magnus Rueping et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

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

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

New Ligands That Promote Cross-Coupling Reactions between Aryl Halides and Unactivated Arenes

(2011) Yatao Qiu et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Potassiumtert-Butoxide Promoted Intramolecular Arylation via a Radical Pathway

(2011) Daniela Sustac Roman et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Synthesis ofN-Arylated 1,2-Dihydroheteroaromatics Through the Three-Component Reaction of Arynes withN-Heteroaromatics and Terminal Alkynes or Ketones

(2010) Masilamani Jeganmohan et al.   Chemistry-An Asian Journal

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

When is free really free?

(2010) Nicholas E. Leadbeater   Nature Chemistry

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

(2008) Shuichi Yanagisawa et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Super-Electron Donors:  Bis-pyridinylidene Formation by Base Treatment of Pyridinium Salts

(2008) John A. Murphy et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Direct Transition-Metal-Free Intramolecular Arylation of Phenols

(2008) Gan B. Bajracharya et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS