New Directions in Ketene Chemistry: The Land of Opportunity

Photochemistry of Group 6 Fischer Carbene Complexes: Beyond the Photocarbonylation Reaction

(2011) Israel Fernández et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

A Nickel-Catalyzed Benzannulation Approach to Aromatic Boronic Esters

(2011) Anne-Laure Auvinet et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthesis with Perfect Atom Economy: Generation of Diazo Ketones by 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition of Nitrous Oxide at Cyclic Alkynes under Mild Conditions

(2011) Klaus Banert et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Continuous In Situ Generation, Separation, and Reaction of Diazomethane in a Dual-Channel Microreactor

(2011) Ram Awatar Maurya et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysis: Enantioselective Formal [2+2] Cycloaddition of Ketenes and N-Sulfinylanilines

(2011) Teng-Yue Jian et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

[3,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement/5-exo-digCyclization Reactions of Benzyl Alkynyl Ethers: Synthesis of Substituted 2-Indanones and Indenes

(2011) Armen A. Tudjarian et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Synthesis of Polycyclic Benzofused Nitrogen Heterocycles via a Tandem Ynamide Benzannulation/Ring-Closing Metathesis Strategy. Application in a Formal Total Synthesis of (+)-FR900482

(2011) Xiao Yin Mak et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

A Consistent Picture of the Proton Release Mechanism ofoNBA in Water by Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics

(2011) Mateusz L. Donten et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Nickel-Catalyzed Formation of Cyclopentenone Derivatives via the Unique Cycloaddition of α,β-Unsaturated Phenyl Esters with Alkynes

(2011) Masato Ohashi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Pd-Catalyzed Carbonylation of Diazo Compounds at Atmospheric Pressure: A Catalytic Approach to Ketenes

(2011) Zhenhua Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Gating the Mechanistic Pathway to the Elusive 4-Membered Ring Azeteoporphyrin

(2011) David F. Dye et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

When Does Carbonylation of Carbenes Yield Ketenes? A Theoretical Study with Implications for Synthesis

(2011) Catharina Goedecke et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Unraveling the Mechanism of Cascade Reactions of Zincke Aldehydes

(2011) Robert S. Paton et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Controlling Volume Shrinkage in Soft Lithography through Heat-Induced Cross-Linking of Patterned Nanofibers

(2011) Yasunao Miyamura et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

From Bifunctional to Trifunctional (Tricomponent Nucleophile–Transition Metal–Lewis Acid) Catalysis: The Catalytic, Enantioselective α-Fluorination of Acid Chlorides

(2011) Jeremy Erb et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Ni-Catalyzed Ketene Cycloaddition: A System That Resists the Formation of Decarbonylation Side Products

(2011) Puneet Kumar et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Three-Component Synthesis of Cyclic Enaminones via Ketene Cyclization

(2011) Hajime Seki et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

[1,5]-H Shift of Aldehyde Hydrogen in Dienal Compounds to Produce Ketenes

(2011) Taku Sakaguchi et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition of Hydrazones with α-Oxo-ketenes: A Three-Component Stereoselective Entry to Pyrazolidinones and an Original Class of Spirooxindoles

(2011) Marc Presset et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective [2+2] Cycloadditions of 2-Nitrosopyridine with Ketenes

(2010) Indranil Chatterjee et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition of Ketenes and Oxaziridines Catalyzed by Chiral Lewis Bases: Enantioselective Synthesis of Oxazolin-4-ones

(2010) Pan-Lin Shao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Enantioselective [4+2] cycloaddition of ketenes and 1-azadienes catalyzed by N-heterocyclic carbenes

(2010) Teng-Yue Jian et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

A Unified Strategy Targeting the Thiodiketopiperazine Mycotoxins Exserohilone, Gliotoxin, the Epicoccins, the Epicorazines, Rostratin A and Aranotin

(2010) Ulrike Gross et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Theoretical Investigations towards the Staudinger Reaction Catalyzed by N-Heterocyclic Carbene: Mechanism and Stereoselectivity

(2010) Ke Tang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

A DFT study on enantioselective synthesis of aza-β-lactams via NHC-catalyzed [2+2] cycloaddition of ketenes with diazenedicarboxylates

(2010) Donghui Wei et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS A-CHEMICAL

Total Synthesis of (−)-Callipeltoside A

(2010) Thomas R. Hoye et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Concerted Wolff Rearrangement in Two Simple Acyclic Diazocarbonyl Compounds

(2010) Gotard Burdzinski et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Ketene Functionalized Polyethylene: Control of Cross-Link Density and Material Properties

(2010) Frank A. Leibfarth et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis of Amino Acid Derived Enaminones via Wolff Rearrangement Using Vinylogous Amides as Carbon Nucleophiles

(2010) Hajime Seki et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Ultrafast Multisequential Photochemistry of 5-Diazo Meldrum’s Acid

(2010) Philipp Rudolf et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A facile route to ketene-functionalized polymers for general materials applications

(2010) Frank A. Leibfarth et al.   Nature Chemistry

Stereoselective control in the Staudinger reactions involving monosubstituted ketenes with electron acceptor substituents: experimental investigation and theoretical rationalization

(2010) Hengzhen Qi et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

N-Pyrrolylketene: A Nonconjugated Heteroarylketene

(2010) Mohammad Reza Islami et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Photolysis of 4-chlororesorcinol in water: competitive formation of a singlet ketene and a triplet carbene

(2010) Claire Richard et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

A new route to silyl-substituted cyclobutenones and silylketenes

(2010) Konstantin Benda et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

N-heterocyclic carbenes which readily add ammonia, carbon monoxide and other small molecules,

(2010) Ulrich Siemeling et al.   Chemical Science

The Assembly of Macrocyclic Bis- and Tetra-β-lactams with Embedded Platinum or Palladium Square-Planar Centers

(2009) Daniel Pellico et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

The Sequential Building of Chiral Macrocyclic Bis-β-Lactams by Double Staudinger-Cu-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloadditions

(2009) Daniel Pellico et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Synthesis of ferrocene tethered open and macrocyclic bis-β-lactams and bis-β-amino acid derivatives

(2009) Miguel A. Sierra et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Application of the Octacarbonyldicobalt-Catalyzed Carbonylation of Ethyl Diazoacetate for the One-Pot Synthesis of N-tert-Butyl-trans-α-ethoxycarbonyl-β-phenyl-β-lactam

(2009) Eszter Fördős et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Synthesis of Amides and Lactams in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

(2009) Xiao Yin Mak et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Staudinger Ketene−Imine Cycloaddition, RCM Approach to Macrocrocyclic Bisazetidinones

(2009) Yehia A. Ibrahim et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Enantioselective Synthesis of Aza-β-lactams via NHC-Catalyzed [2 + 2] Cycloaddition of Ketenes with Diazenedicarboxylates

(2009) Xue-Liang Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

New Insights into the Torquoselectivity of the Staudinger Reaction

(2009) Yong Liang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

AnN,N′-Diamidocarbene: Studies in C−H Insertion, Reversible Carbonylation, and Transition-Metal Coordination Chemistry

(2009) Todd W. Hudnall et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

An Asymmetric Hetero-Claisen Approach to 3-Alkyl-3-aryloxindoles

(2009) Nicolas Duguet et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Enantioselective Synthesis of β-Trifluoromethyl-β-lactones via NHC-Catalyzed Ketene−Ketone Cycloaddition Reactions

(2009) Xiao-Na Wang et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

A Catalytic Asymmetric Route to Carbapenems

(2009) Micah J. Bodner et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

ChiralN-Heterocyclic Carbene-Catalyzed Formal [4+2] Cycloaddition of Ketenes with Enones: Highly Enantioselective Synthesis oftrans- andcis-δ-Lactones

(2008) Yan-Rong Zhang et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Enhancement of the Reactivity of Photochemically Generated Enediynes via Keto−Enol Tautomerization

(2008) Grigori Karpov et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Expansion by Contraction: Diversifying the Photochemical Reactivity Scope of Diazo-oxochlorins toward Development ofin SituAlkylating Agents

(2008) Tillmann Köpke et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Spiro-Aziridine and Bislactam Formation from Bisketene−Imine Cycloadditions

(2008) Annette D. Allen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Study of Concerted and Sequential Photochemical Wolff Rearrangement by Femtosecond UV−vis and IR Spectroscopy

(2008) Gotard T. Burdzinski et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Ultrafast UV−Vis and IR Studies ofp-Biphenylyl Acetyl and Carbomethoxy Carbenes

(2008) Jin Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis and biological evaluation of bile acid dimers linked with 1,2,3-triazole and bis-β-lactam

(2008) Namdev S. Vatmurge et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Preparation of β-lactams by [2+2] cycloaddition of ketenes and imines

(2008) Nanyan Fu et al.   TETRAHEDRON

Chiral N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed Staudinger Reaction of Ketenes with Imines:  Highly Enantioselective Synthesis ofN-Boc β-Lactams

(2007) Yan-Rong Zhang et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS