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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Bowen Hu, Haoqiang Zhao, Yu Wu, Patrick J. Walsh
Summary: A novel, selective and high-yielding palladium-catalyzed carbonylative arylation of weakly acidic benzylic and heterobenzylic C(sp(3))-H bonds with aryl bromides has been achieved. The system allows access to diverse alpha-aryl or alpha,alpha-diaryl ketones, which are commonly found in biologically active compounds. The use of Josiphos SL-J001-1-based palladium catalyst enables the carbonylative arylation without the formation of direct coupling byproducts.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2023)
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Chemistry, Applied
Yujie Yang, Na Li, Jie Zhao, Yuqin Jiang, Xinying Zhang, Xuesen Fan
Summary: This study presents a selective synthesis of 3-(alpha-fluorovinyl)indoles and 3-acylindoles via a cascade process, demonstrating potential as lead compounds for drug development with controllable selectivity and simultaneous formation of diverse compounds.
ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS
(2021)
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Chemistry, Applied
Hayeon Kwak, Eunsu Kang, Jae Yeong Song, Geunhee Kang, Jung Min Joo
Summary: The development of modular approaches for heteroaromatic cores and substituents is crucial for drug candidates and organic functional materials. A new strategy involving the cyclization of heteroarenes tethered with alkynes through a norbornene bridge was developed. The Pd catalytic system transformed a variety of five-membered heteroarenes to the corresponding benzofused products, demonstrating its versatility in the annulation of (hetero)aromatic rings.
ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS
(2021)
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Chemistry, Physical
Daniele Antermite, Andrew J. P. White, Luis Casarrubios, James A. Bull
Summary: This study presents a combined experimental and computational investigation on the regio- and stereoselective C4 arylation of pyrrolidines and piperidines using C3 aminoquinoline amide directing groups. The mechanistic experiments reveal a cis-selective pathway and the discovery of an improved directing group. This study contributes to the understanding and improvement of C-H functionalization of N-heterocycles.
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yong Yuan, Liang-Sen Li, Lin Zhang, Feng Wang, Lin Jiang, Lin Zuo, Qi Wang, Jian-Guo Hu, Aiwen Lei
Summary: An electrochemical oxidative cross-coupling reaction has been developed, producing a series of unprecedented cross-coupling products under metal catalyst-, exogenous-oxidant-, and exogenous-electrolyte-free conditions. The resulting products are nearly insoluble in solvent, allowing for pure product isolation without silica gel column purification, and the prepared ammonium oxides are versatile building blocks for synthesizing pyrazole derivatives.
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Man-Bo Li, Jan-E Backvall
Summary: Palladium-catalyzed oxidations involving cascade processes have challenges in achieving high palladium efficiency and selectivity, but using heterogeneous palladium catalysts immobilized on amino-functionalized support materials has shown promising results in addressing these issues. The catalysts exhibit high activity, selectivity, and efficient recycling ability, and have been applied in various oxidative cascade reactions to access important compounds for medicinal chemistry and functional materials.
ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Fangzhi Hu, Zhipeng Sun, Mengzhe Pan, Liang Wang, Lubin Xu, Xiong-Li Liu, Shuai-Shuai Li
Summary: A H2O-promoted controllable synthesis of diverse nitrogen heterocycles was developed using a hydride transfer strategy. Various 3-carboxyl and 3-acyl substituted tetrahydroquinolines and 3,4-dihydroquinolin-2(1H)-ones were obtained via cascade reactions. The methodology's synthetic utility and mechanistic studies were also presented.
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Cong Zhang, Yuhang He, Guanghui An
Summary: Iron-mediated divergent reductive coupling reactions of heteroarenes with alkenes have been developed. By switching the substituent site at the C2 and C4 positions of quinolines, either C2 Minisci alkylation or C4 reductive alkylation could be achieved. These approaches feature mild conditions and sensitive functional group tolerance, which enables the functionalization of natural products and medicines. Mechanism investigation revealed that Fe(dibm)(3) would be a dual promoter for both alkyl radical transfer and generation of the more reactive hydrogen donor Ph(RO)SiH2.
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Shuo Yang, Xiao-De An, Bin Qiu, Rui-Bin Liu, Jian Xiao
Summary: This study presents a novel method for one-step construction of a polycyclic indole-3,4-fused skeleton. By involving aldehydes and hydride transfer chemistry, the challenges of constructing medium-sized rings have been successfully addressed.
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Chemistry, Organic
Xinyuan Cai, Xia Song, Xueying Yang, Xinying Zhang, Xuesen Fan
Summary: This paper presents a divergent synthesis method for indene-fused pyrazoles and bridged benzodiazepines tethered with a reactive hydroxymethyl group. The synthesis is achieved through cascade reactions of aryl azomethine imines with vinyl cyclic carbonates. The developed protocol allows for the efficient and atom-economical synthesis of various carbo-/heterocyclic products with pharmaceutical and agrochemical significance.
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Srishti Ballabh Bahukhandi, Sripati Jana, Rene M. Koenigs
Summary: The study presents a Bronsted-acid catalyzed method for chemoselective C-H functionalization of unprotected N-heterocycles, enabling selective reaction at the C3-position without the need for protecting groups. This approach offers mild reaction conditions, short reaction time, and applicability to both protected indole and unprotected pyrrole heterocycles.
ASIAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Raffaella Mancuso, Patrizio Russo, Melania Lettieri, Domenico Santandrea, Corrado Cuocci, Bartolo Gabriele
Summary: Polycyclic heterocyclic derivatives can be synthesized in one step by a carbonylative double cyclization approach, with yields ranging from 45% to 86%, showing promising potential for various applications.
ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Pidiyara Karishma, Alisha Gogia, Sanjay K. Mandal, Rajeev Sakhuja
Summary: This study successfully achieved a direct carbocyclization of 2-aryl-2,3-dihydrophthalazine-1,4-diones using isocyanates as the carbonyl source via Ru(II)-catalyzed sequential ortho-amidation followed by intramolecular nucleophilic substitution, delivering substituted indazolo[1,2-b]phthalazine-triones in good-to-excellent yields. Additionally, excellent yields of the corresponding amidated products were obtained for ortho-substituted 2-aryl-2,3-dihydrophthalazine-1,4-diones by modifying the reaction parameters. The use of isocyanates as the carbonyl source, high functional group tolerance on the two coupling partners, and diverse chemical transformation of the synthesized fused and functionalized phthalazinones are the key highlights of this work.
ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Raffaella Mancuso, Ida Ziccarelli, Mariangela Novello, Corrado Cuocci, Roberto Centore, Nicola Della Ca', Diego Olivieri, Carla Carfagna, Bartolo Gabriele
Summary: The reactivity of 2-alkynylbenzoic acids under Pdl(2)/KI-catalyzed oxidative alkoxycarbonylation conditions has been studied. The reaction selectively produces high value added compounds under specific conditions. The structures of the products were confirmed by XRD analysis.
JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Amalia-Sofia Piticari, Daniele Antermite, Joe Higham, J. Harry Moore, Matthew P. Webster, James A. Bull
Summary: This study achieved the selective Pd-catalyzed C-H cis-functionalization of piperidine and tetrahydropyran carboxylic acids using a C(4) aminoquinoline amide auxiliary. High mono- and cis-selectivity was obtained by adding mesityl carboxylic acid. The reaction conditions developed in this study had significantly lower temperatures compared to other reported heterocycle C(sp(3))-H functionalization reactions, and a one-pot C-H functionalization-epimerization procedure was established to directly obtain the trans-3,4-disubstituted isomers. Diverse aminoquinoline removals were achieved by installing carboxylic acid, alcohol, amide, and nitrile functional groups. Overall, fragment compounds suitable for screening were synthesized in 3-4 steps from readily-available heterocyclic carboxylic acids.
ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Jose Antonio Garcia-Lopez, Roberto Frutos-Pedreno, Delia Bautista, Isabel Saura-Llamas, Jose Vicente
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Marta Perez-Gomez, Leticia Navarro, Isabel Saura-Llamas, Delia Bautista, Mark Lautens, Jose-Antonio Garcia-Lopez
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Ivan Franzoni, Hyung Yoon, Jose-Antonio Garcia-Lopez, Amalia Isabel Poblador-Bahamonde, Mark Lautens
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Marta Perez-Gomez, Sergio Hernandez-Ponte, Jose Antonio Garcia-Lopez, Roberto Frutos-Pedreno, Delia Bautista, Isabel Saura-Llamas, Jose Vicente
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Marta Perez-Gomez, Hamid Azizollahi, Ivan Franzoni, Egor M. Larin, Mark Lautens, Jose-Antonio Garcia-Lopez
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Hamid Azizollahi, Marta Perez-Gomez, Vaibhav P. Mehta, Jose-Antonio Garcia-Lopez
ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS
(2020)
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Hamid Azizollahi, Hossein Eshghi, Jose-Antonio Garcia-Lopez
Summary: This paper introduces a green magnetic efficient palladium catalyst for Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reactions and the synthesis of pyrimido[4,5-b]indoles, with high yield and fast reaction rate. The catalyst can be easily recovered using an external magnet device and recycled multiple times without significant loss of catalytic activity.
APPLIED ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Hamid Azizollahi, Jose-Antonio Garcia-Lopez
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Jose-Antonio Garcia-Lopez, Maria-Jose Oliva-Madrid, Delia Bautista, Jose Vicente, Isabel Saura-Llamas
Summary: This study involves the synthesis of metallacycles by inserting alkynes into Pd-C bonds of ortho-metalated homoveratrylamine and phentermine, which further react with alkenes to form mononuclear complexes. Depending on the type of olefin used, different types of Pd(II) complexes are obtained. When terminal alkenes are used, anti/syn eta(3)-allyl Pd(II) complexes are formed; whereas using 2-norbornene leads to the formation of norbornyl palladium(II) complexes with a 10-membered ring structure.
Review
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Jose-Antonio Garcia-Lopez, Isabel Saura-Llamas
Summary: This manuscript reviews different approaches for the synthesis of C,C-palladacycles and their relevance in catalytic transformations. The strategies include elemental steps like oxidative addition of C-C bonds and more complex processes involving multiple Pd chemistry steps. Furthermore, it highlights synthetic methodologies based on Pd catalysis with C,C-palladacyclic intermediates.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Marta Perez-Gomez, Piedad Herrera-Ramirez, Delia Bautista, Isabel Saura-Llamas, Jose-Antonio Garcia-Lopez
Summary: A Pd-catalyzed synthesis method for heterocycles with a tetrasubstituted alkene fragment is reported. The method involves the intramolecular carbopalladation of tethered alkynes combined with an alkylation step produced by the C-C cleavage of cyclobutanol derivatives. An alkenyl-Pd(II) intermediate was isolated and characterized by X-ray diffraction studies. It was found that the nature of the tethering alkynyl chain affects the E/Z stereochemistry of the alkenyl fragment in the functionalized heterocycles.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Hamid Azizollahi, Vaibhav P. Mehta, Jose-Antonio Garcia-Lopez
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(2019)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Vaibhav P. Mehta, Jose-Antonio Garcia-Lopez
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Marta Perez-Gomez, Sergio Hernandez-Ponte, Delia Bautista, Jose-Antonio Garcia-Lopez
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(2017)