Interception of benzyne with thioethers: a facile access to sulfur ylides under mild conditions

Recent Advances in Asymmetric Organocatalytic Construction of 3,3′-Spirocyclic Oxindoles

(2013) Liang Hong et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Tandem thia-Fries rearrangement – cyclisation of 2-(trimethylsilyl)phenyl trifluoromethanesulfonate benzyne precursors

(2013) Catherine Hall et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Practical and Highly Selective Sulfur Ylide-Mediated Asymmetric Epoxidations and Aziridinations Using a Cheap and Readily Available Chiral Sulfide: Extensive Studies To Map Out Scope, Limitations, and Rationalization of Diastereo- and Enantioselectivities

(2013) Ona Illa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Alkane C–H Insertion by Aryne Intermediates with a Silver Catalyst

(2013) Sang Young Yun et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Alkane desaturation by concerted double hydrogen atom transfer to benzyne

(2013) Dawen Niu et al.   NATURE

Synthesis of complex benzenoids via the intermediate generation of o-benzynes through the hexadehydro-Diels-Alder reaction

(2013) Beeraiah Baire et al.   Nature Protocols

Alder-Ene Reactions of Arynes

(2013) Rajdip Karmakar et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Enantioselective Construction of Oxa- and Aza-Angular Triquinanes through Tandem [4 + 1]/[3 + 2] Cycloaddition of Sulfur Ylides and Nitroolefins

(2013) Jing An et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Intermolecular C–O addition of carboxylic acids to arynes: synthesis of o-hydroxyaryl ketones, xanthones, 4-chromanones, and flavones

(2013) Anton V. Dubrovskiy et al.   TETRAHEDRON

Formal [4+1] cycloaddition of camphor-derived sulfonium salts with aldimines: enantioselective synthesis of 2,3-dihydrobenzofurans

(2013) Ying Cheng et al.   TETRAHEDRON

Silver-mediated fluorination, trifluoromethylation, and trifluoromethylthiolation of arynes

(2013) Kung-Pern Wang et al.   Chemical Science

Development of Cascade Reactions for the Concise Construction of Diverse Heterocyclic Architectures

(2012) Liang-Qiu Lu et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Chemo- and Regioselective Assembly of Polysubstituted Pyridines and Isoquinolines from Isocyanides, Arynes, and Terminal Alkynes

(2012) Feng Sha et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Steric Effects Compete with Aryne Distortion To Control Regioselectivities of Nucleophilic Additions to 3-Silylarynes

(2012) Sarah M. Bronner et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The hexadehydro-Diels–Alder reaction

(2012) Thomas R. Hoye et al.   NATURE

Aryne cycloaddition with 3-oxidopyridinium species

(2012) Hailong Ren et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Aryne Insertion into I–I σ-Bonds

(2012) Diego Rodríguez-Lojo et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Reaction of isatin with alkylating agents with acidic methylenes

(2012) María S. Shmidt et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Copper-Catalyzed Borylation Reactions of Alkynes and Arynes

(2011) Hiroto Yoshida et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Enantioselective Cascade Reactions of Stable Sulfur Ylides and Nitroolefins through an Axial-to-Central Chirality Transfer Strategy

(2011) Liang-Qiu Lu et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Highly Selective Insertion of Arynes into a C(sp)−O(sp3) σ Bond

(2011) Krzysztof Z. Ła̧czkowski et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Noncovalent Organocatalysis: A Powerful Tool for the Nucleophilic Epoxidation of α-Ylideneoxindoles

(2011) Chiara Palumbo et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Highly Selective Ylide-Initiated Michael Addition/Cyclization Reaction for Synthesis of Cyclohexadiene Epoxide and Vinylcyclopropane Derivatives

(2010) Ben-Hu Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Asymmetric Cyclopropanation of β,γ-Unsaturated α-Ketoesters with Stabilized Sulfur Ylides Catalyzed byC2-Symmetric Ureas

(2010) Ying Cheng et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

On the Mechanism of Ylide-Mediated Cyclopropanations: Evidence for a Proton-Transfer Step and Its Effect on Stereoselectivity

(2010) Samantha L. Riches et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Indolyne Experimental and Computational Studies: Synthetic Applications and Origins of Selectivities of Nucleophilic Additions

(2010) G-Yoon J. Im et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Stereoinduction by distortional asymmetry

(2010) Robert V. Kolakowski et al.   Nature Chemistry

Catalytic (Asymmetric) Methylene Transfer to Aldehydes

(2010) Alessandro Piccinini et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Catalytic [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement of sulfur ylide derived from metal carbene

(2009) Yan Zhang et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Efficient Synthesis of 2-(Trimethylsilyl)phenyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate: A Versatile Precursor too-Benzyne

(2009) Sarah M. Bronner et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Cascade Nucleophilic Addition−Cyclic Michael Addition of Arynes and Phenols/Anilines Bearing Ortho α,β-Unsaturated Groups: Facile Synthesis of 9-Functionalized Xanthenes/Acridines

(2009) Xian Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

One-Pot Highly Diastereoselective Synthesis ofcis-Vinylaziridines via the Sulfur Ylide-Mediated Aziridination and Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Isomerization

(2009) Ben-Hu Zhu et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Ylide-Initiated Michael Addition−Cyclization Reactions beyond Cyclopropanes

(2008) Xiu-Li Sun et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

A Cooperative Copper- and Palladium-Catalyzed Three-Component Coupling of Benzynes, Allylic Epoxides, and Terminal Alkynes

(2008) Masilamani Jeganmohan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Highly Diastereoselective and Enantioselective Formal [4 + 1] Ylide Annulation for the Synthesis of Optically Active Dihydrofurans

(2008) Jun-Cheng Zheng et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

A New Entry to Cascade Organocatalysis: Reactions of Stable Sulfur Ylides and Nitroolefins Sequentially Catalyzed by Thiourea and DMAP

(2008) Liang-Qiu Lu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY