The cooperative action of Ru and Cu catalysts enables direct polynuclear C-H and N-H activation for the dehydrogenative N-carbazolation of carbazoles, selectively at the Cl position. Initial mechanistic experiments are p...
A process for the regioselective amination of unsymmetrical 3,5-substituted pyridine N-oxides has been developed utilizing cheap, readily available saccharin as an ammonium surrogate. High conversions of the correspondin...
A copper-catalyzed electrophilic amination of aryl[(2-hydroxymethyl)phenyl]dimethylsilanes with O-acylated hydroxylamines has been developed to afford the corresponding anilines in good yields. The catalytic reaction pro...
An efficient ruthenium(II) catalyst enabled broadly applicable oxidative alkyne annulations with electron-rich enamines to provide diversely decorated pyrroles, even in an aerobic fashion with air as the ideal oxidant.
A facile approach to the diazotransfer reagent of imidazole-1-sulfonyl azide was reported. The procedure was well optimized to clarify potential explosion risks. A high production yield as well as small batch variation w...
A series of synthetic nicotinamide cofactors were synthesized to replace natural nicotinamide cofactors and promote enoate reductase (ER) catalyzed reactions without compromising the activity or stereoselectivity of the ...
The straightforward synthesis of a double-lasso macrocycle from a nonsymmetrical [c2]daisy chain, using the copper(I)-catalyzed Huisgen alkyne-azide 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition, is described. The preparation of the nonsymm...
An efficient, high-yielding, and transition-metal-free synthesis of diaryl sulfones from arylsulfinic acid salts and diaryliodonium salts has been developed. The mild reaction conditions tolerate a range of functional gr...
The first examples of the asymmetric synthesis of P-stereogenic vinylic phospholene boranes are described. The synthetic approach is concise and flexible. The route involves (i) asymmetric deprotonation-allylation of a d...
A cobalt-triarylphosphine catalyst promotes an annulation reaction of an alpha,beta-unsaturated imine and an internal alkyne to afford a polysubstituted dihydropyridine derivative in good yield under mild conditions. The...
A novel and highly diastereoselective intramolecular carbamoylketene/alkene [2 + 2] cycloaddition has been developed, and the methodology was successfully applied to the enantioselective syntheses of (-)-esermethole and ...
The self-condensation of alkynals was for the first time implemented under mild organocatalytic conditions and was successfully linked with a domino organocatalytic inverse-electron-demand oza-Diels-Alder reaction, which...
A powerful, new reagent, an amidinate salt of hexafluoroacetone hydrate, is an air-stable salt that can be used for the preparation of fluorinated organic molecules. Nucleophilic trifluoromethylation reactions are demons...
A method for amination of aliphatic C-H bonds of N-alkylamidines is described that utilizes Cu(OAc)(2) as the catalyst in the presence of Phl(OAc)(2) and K3PO4. The resulting products, dihydroimidazoles and tetrahydropyr...
Judicious design of BODIPY dyes carrying nitroethenyl substituents in conjugation with the BODIPY core yields dyes that respond to biological thiols by both absorbance and emission changes. Incorporation of solubilizing ...
In an effort to further elucidate the biogenesis of the stephacidin and notoamide families of natural products, notoamide T has been identified as the likely precursor to stephacidin A. The total synthesis of notoamide T...