Transition-Metal-Free α-Arylation of Enolizable Aryl Ketones and Mechanistic Evidence for a Radical Process

Evidence for the interaction between tBuOK and 1,10-phenanthroline to form the 1,10-phenanthroline radical anion: a key step for the activation of aryl bromides by electron transfer

(2015) Hong Yi et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

From acetone metalation to the catalytic α-arylation of acyclic ketones with NHC–nickel(ii) complexes

(2014) Mickaël Henrion et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Observations on transition metal free biaryl coupling: potassium tert-butoxide alone promotes the reaction without diamine or phenanthroline catalysts

(2014) J. Cuthbertson et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Transition-Metal-Free Coupling Reactions

(2014) Chang-Liang Sun et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

The electron is a catalyst

(2014) Armido Studer et al.   Nature Chemistry

An expedient route to heterocycles through α-arylation of ketones and arylamides by microwave induced thermal SRN1 reactions

(2014) Silvia M. Soria-Castro et al.   RSC Advances

Carbamoyl Anion Addition to N-Sulfinyl Imines: Highly Diastereoselective Synthesis of α-Amino Amides

(2013) Jonathan T. Reeves et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Intramolecular Dehydrative Coupling of Tertiary Amines and Ketones Promoted by KO-t-Bu/DMF: A New Synthesis of Indole Derivatives

(2013) Wen-tao Wei et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

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

(2013) Shengze Zhou et al.   Chemical Science

Direct Copper-Catalyzed α-Arylation of Benzyl Phenyl Ketones with Aryl Iodides: Route towards Tamoxifen

(2012) Grégory Danoun et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Trace metal impurities in catalysis

(2012) Isabelle Thomé et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Tamoxifen: A Synthetic Overview

(2012) Konstantinos M. Kasiotis et al.   CURRENT ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Transition-Metal-Free Synthesis of Oxindoles by Potassium tert-Butoxide-Promoted Intramolecular α-Arylation

(2012) Astrid Beyer et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

One-pot method for α-phenylation of ketones using isoxazolidine and triphenylaluminum

(2012) Tetsuya Miyoshi et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

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

Palladium-Catalyzed Mono-α-arylation of Acetone with Aryl Halides and Tosylates

(2011) Kevin D. Hesp et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Metal-Catalyzed α-Arylation of Carbonyl and Related Molecules: Novel Trends in CC Bond Formation by CH Bond Functionalization

(2010) Carin C. C. Johansson et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Transition Metal-Catalyzed Direct Arylation of Substrates with Activated sp3-Hybridized C−H Bonds and Some of Their Synthetic Equivalents with Aryl Halides and Pseudohalides

(2009) Fabio Bellina et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

One-Pot Synthesis of Benzofurans via Palladium-Catalyzed Enolate Arylation witho-Bromophenols

(2008) Christian Eidamshaus et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS