Synthesis of Acrylonitriles through an FeCl3-Catalyzed Domino Propargylic Substitution/Aza-Meyer-Schuster Rearrangement Sequence

Triazole-Gold-Promoted, Effective Synthesis of Enones from Propargylic Esters and Alcohols: A Catalyst Offering Chemoselectivity, Acidity and Ligand Economy

(2011) Dawei Wang et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Double Duty for Cyanogen Bromide in a Cascade Synthesis of Cyanoepoxides

(2011) Zhou Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Catalytic Asymmetric Propargylation

(2011) Chang-Hua Ding et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

The Construction of Five-Membered Heterocycles by Transition Metal-Catalyzed Cyclization of Propargylic Compounds

(2011) Lu Hao et al.   CURRENT ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

An α-Diaminoboryl Carbanion Assisted Stereoselective Single-Pot Preparation of α,β-Disubstituted Acrylonitriles

(2011) Takashi Tomioka et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

A General Procedure for the Synthesis of Enones via Gold-Catalyzed Meyer−Schuster Rearrangement of Propargylic Alcohols at Room Temperature

(2011) Matthew N. Pennell et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Aerobic Oxidative Transformation of Primary Azides to Nitriles by Ruthenium Hydroxide Catalyst

(2011) Jinling He et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Palladium-Catalyzed Cyanomethylation of Aryl Halides through Domino Suzuki Coupling–Isoxazole Fragmentation

(2011) Juraj Velcicky et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Contemporaneous Dual Catalysis: Chemoselective Cross-Coupling of Catalytic Vanadium–Allenoate and π-Allylpalladium Intermediates

(2011) Barry M. Trost et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Direct Transformation ofN,N-Dimethylformamide to −CN: Pd-Catalyzed Cyanation of Heteroarenes via C–H Functionalization

(2011) Shengtao Ding et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Atom-Economical Chemoselective Synthesis of 1,4-Diynes and Polysubstituted Furans/Pyrroles from Propargyl Alcohols and Terminal Alkynes

(2011) Tao Wang et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Tandem Reaction of Propargyl Alcohol andN-Sulfonylhydrazone: Synthesis of Dihydropyrazole and Its Utility in the Preparation of 3,3-Diarylacrylonitrile

(2011) Yuanxun Zhu et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Lewis Acid Catalyzed Direct Cyanation of Indoles and Pyrroles withN-Cyano-N-phenyl-p-toluenesulfonamide (NCTS)

(2011) Yang Yang et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Photochemically Induced Radical Transformation of C(sp3)–H Bonds to C(sp3)–CN Bonds

(2011) Shin Kamijo et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Copper-Mediated Cyanation of Aryl Halide with the Combined Cyanide Source

(2011) Guoying Zhang et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

A Mild and Efficient Palladium-Catalyzed Cyanation of Aryl Chlorides with K4[Fe(CN)6]

(2011) Pui Yee Yeung et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Chemoselective Cascade Synthesis of N-Fused Heterocycles via Silver(I) Triflate-Catalyzed Friedel-Crafts/N-C Bond Formation Sequence

(2010) Lu Hao et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Metal-catalyzed transformations of propargylic alcohols into α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds: from the Meyer–Schuster and Rupe rearrangements to redox isomerizations

(2010) Victorio Cadierno et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Acetone Cyanohydrin as a Source of HCN in the Cu-Catalyzed Hydrocyanation of α-Aryl Diazoacetates

(2010) Eun Ju Park et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Development of Pd/C-Catalyzed Cyanation of Aryl Halides

(2010) Hannah Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Iron-Facilitated Direct Oxidative C−H Transformation of Allylarenes or Alkenes to Alkenyl Nitriles

(2010) Chong Qin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A New Combined Source of “CN” fromN,N-Dimethylformamide and Ammonia in the Palladium-Catalyzed Cyanation of Aryl C−H Bonds

(2010) Jinho Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

An Efficient Transformation from Benzyl or Allyl Halides to Aryl and Alkenyl Nitriles

(2010) Wang Zhou et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Copper-Catalyzed Stereoselective Hydroarylation of 3-Aryl-2- propynenitriles with Arylboronic Acids

(2009) Yoshihiko Yamamoto et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Catalytic Oxidative Synthesis of Nitriles Directly from Primary Alcohols and Ammonia

(2009) Takamichi Oishi et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Direct Transformation of Methyl Arenes to Aryl Nitriles at Room Temperature

(2009) Wang Zhou et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Catalytic Propargylic Substitution Reactions

(2009) Yoshihiro Miyake et al.   ChemCatChem

New catalytic properties of iron complexes: dehydration of amides to nitriles

(2009) Shaolin Zhou et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

A Simple and Versatile Re-Catalyzed Meyer-Schuster Rearrangement of Propargylic Alcohols to α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds

(2009) Massimo Stefanoni et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Catalyzed Propargylic Substitution

(2009) Remko J. Detz et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Propargylation/Cycloisomerization Tandem Reaction: One-Pot Synthesis of Substituted Oxazoles from Propargylic Alcohols and Amides

(2009) Ying-ming Pan et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

The Meyer–Schuster rearrangement for the synthesis of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds

(2009) Douglas A. Engel et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

The Promise and Challenge of Iron-Catalyzed Cross Coupling

(2008) Benjamin D. Sherry et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Sustainable Metal Catalysis with Iron: From Rust to a Rising Star?

(2008) Stephan Enthaler et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Propargylic Substitution

(2008) Natalie Ljungdahl et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Iron-catalysed carbon–heteroatom and heteroatom–heteroatom bond forming processes

(2008) Arkaitz Correa et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Stereoselective Synthesis of 3,3-Diarylacrylonitriles as Tubulin Polymerization Inhibitors

(2008) Zhenglai Fang et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY