Carbenoid cascade

Masahiro Terada and co-worker from Tohoku University have reported in ACIEE on a relay catalysis

ACIEE paper

Reduction using Hantzsch esters

Yong-Gui Zhou and co-workers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported in JACS on a reduction of benzoxazinones using Hantzsch esters and ruthenium to regenerate the reduced form of the Hantzsch esters.

JACS paper

Epoxide opening with a fluoride

Abigail Doyle and colleague have reported in JACS on an epoxide ring opening reaction using a fluoride group.

JACS Paper

Copper and rhodium cooperating

Shunsuke Chiba and co-workers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have reported in ACIEE on a copper and rhodium catalyzed cyclization of a vinyl azide and an alkyne.

ACIEE paper

Propargylic alcohols with aldehydes

Yoshiaki Nishibayashi and co-workers at the University of Tokyo have reported in European Journal of Organic Chemistry on a cooperative catalysis example.

European JOC paper

Looks like anothe case of cooperative catalysis

Clement Mazet and co-workers at the Universite Geneve have published in ACIEE on a sequential iridium catalyzed isomerization of an allylic alcohol to an aldehyde followed by enamine catalysis to form an alpha-substituted aldehyde.

 

ACIEE paper

Cooperative Catalysis

Yoshiaki Nishibayashi and co-workers from the University of Tokyo have published in Organic Letters on a cooperative catalysis approach to add a propargylic group onto the alpha position of an aldehyde.

 

OL paper

Aryl Aldehydes via Cooperative Catalysis

Junliang Xiao and co-workers from the University of Liverpool have published in Organic Letters on a cooperative catalysis approach to acylate aryl chlorides by combining aldehydes with corresponding aryl chlorides using palladium and pyrrolidine.

OL paper

Ruthenium- and Organo-Catalyzed Reaction

Yoshiaki Nishibayashi and co-workers at the University of Tokyo have published in ACIEE on a cooperative catalysis approach to combining a propargylic alcohol with an aldehyde.

ACIEE paper

Indium-Catalyzed Cyclization

Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal and co-workers at Chimie ParisTech have published in Organic Letters on what looks like an indium promoted Conia-Ene cyclization.

OL paper