Fe-catalyzed C-H amination

Theodore Betley and co-worker have reported in Science on an iron catalyzed C-H amination.

Science paper

Fluorination using N-OH

Masayuki Inoue and co-workers at the University of Tokyo have reported in Organic Letters on a fluorination of a C-H bond using an N-hydroxy reagent.

OL paper

Desaturation

C-H bond activation is popular because you can convert alkanes into alcohols – looks like a desaturase reaction where alkanes turn into alkenes is going to be up and coming in popularity soon. Pedro Perez and co-workers at CIQSO in Spain have reported in JACS on a copper catalyst that converted alkanes to alkenes.

 

JACS paper

C-H amination of C12-position

Shuji Yamashita and co-workers from Tohoku University have reported in Tetrahedron Letters on a C-H amination of the C12-position of steroids.

Tetrahedron Letters paper

C-Si bond formation

Kazuhiko Takai and co-workers from Okayama University have reported in Organic Letters on a rhodium catalyzed C-H activation process that forms a new C-Si bond.

OL paper

C-H arylation of cyclopropanes

Nicolai Cramer and co-worker from ETH Zurich have reported in ACIE on a C-H arylation of cyclopropanes.

ACIE paper

C-H vs. C-C

Chisato Mukai and co-workers from Kanazawa University have reported in JACS on a rhodium catalyzed transformation that either results in a C-C bond cleavage or C-H bond activation reaction depending on the ligand.

JACS paper

Biaryl synthesis

Christopher Russell and colleagues at the University of Bristol have reported in Science on a gold catalyzed C-H activation approach for biaryl synthesis.

Science paper

Copper catalyzed fluorination

Thomas Lectka and co-workers at Johns Hopkins University have reported in ACIE on a copper catalyzed fluorination process.

ACIE paper

Manganese catalyzed fluorination

John Groves and co-workers have reported in Science on a manganese promoted fluorination process of aliphatics.

 

Science paper