o-(Silylmethyl)benzyl carbonates reacted with various electron-deficient ketones in the presence of a palladium catalyst, affording the [4 + 2] cycloaddition products, isochromanes, in high yields. The palladium-catalyze...
In the presence of a Cu/DiPPAM catalytic system, various diorganozinc reagents realize 1,6-asymmetric conjugate addition on various cyclic five- and six-membered cyclic dienones, with complete regioselectivity and high e...
An iterative procedure gives 1,3,5-phenyl-linked dendrons of up to the fourth generation and enables the formation of different generations of iridium(III) complex-cored dendrimers. The convergent synthesis uses N,N'-1,8...
A new method for the highly effective synthesis of alpha-siloxyamides is described. The addition of isocyanide to aldehyde proceeded smoothly in the presence of silanol to give the corresponding alpha-siloxyamides in hig...
The enantioselective synthesis of (Z)-1,2-anti-2,5-anti-triol monosilyl ethers via a two-step sequence involving olefin cross-metathesis of beta-alkoxyallylboronate 4 and subsequent allylboration of the derived bisboryl ...
A catalytic stereoselective 1,4-diboration of conjugated dienes with B-2(pin)(2) was accomplished with Ni(cod)(2) and PCy3 as the catalyst. This reaction broadens the substrate scope of current methods for catalytic dien...
As the first N-centered heteroaromatic nucleophile for organocatalytic cascade reactions, pyrroles underwent the enantio- and diastereoselective organocatalytic cascade conjugate addition-aldol reactions of alpha,beta-un...
The putative key biosynthetic intermediates of prenylated indole alkaloids have long been proposed but never isolated. Two such alkaloids, named talathermophilins A and B (1 and 2), were isolated from a thermophilic fung...
DIBPillar[n]arenes (n = 5, 6) were synthesized. They showed different host-guest properties with n-octyltriethyl ammonium hexafluorophosphate G due to their different cavity sizes. DIBpillar[5]arene showed no complexatio...
A series of 1,4-bis[2,2-bis(4-alkoxyphenyl)vinyl]benzene molecules with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) activity were synthesized. The conformations and packing arrangements of these molecules in the solid state can b...
An unprecedented oxidative Prins transformation on phenol derivatives mediated by a hypervalent iodine reagent has been developed. This method allows a rapid access to highly substituted compact systems present in severa...
An efficient two-step multigram synthesis of the previously unknown 3-benzyl-3-azabicyclo[3.1.1]heptan-6-one is described. The compound is shown to be a promising building block for further selective derivatization of th...
A new strategy for the synthesis of poly-substituted 3-H, 3-F, and 3-trifluoromethyl pyridines based on C-F bond breaking of the anionically activated fluoroalkyl group is described. A series of 2,6-disubstituted 4-amino...
A cationic gold(I) complex bearing a semihollow-shaped triethynylphosphine ligand efficiently catalyzed the 7-exo-dig cyclization of silyl enol ethers with an omega-alkynic substituent. The reaction gave various methylen...
Enantiomerically enriched potassium beta-trifluoroboratoamides were synthesized as air-stable solids in greater than 95:5 dr using pseudoephedrine as the chiral auxiliary. With these chiral nucleophiles, Suzuki-Miyaura c...
Aryltrimethylammonium triflates and tetrafluoroborates were found to be highly reactive electrophiles in the Pd-catalyzed cross coupling with aryl Grignard reagents. The coupling reactions proceed at ambient temperature ...