Towards PF-1018

Dirk Trauner and co-workers at have reported in Organic Letters on a Stille-Diels Alder cascade approach towards PF-1018.

OL paper

Ullman with light

I guess Greg Fu made a statement at Caltech with his Science paper in collaboration with the Jonas Peters group. This Science paper discloses an Ullman reaction (copper mediated aryl iodide and amine coupling) in the presence of light.

 

Science paper

Mizoroki-Heck reaction

Janine Cossy and co-workers from CNRS have reported in Organic Letters on a palladium catalyzed approach to access trienols.

OL paper

Myxalamide synthesis

Susumu Kobayashi and co-workers at the Tokyo University of Science have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of myxalamide.

ACIE paper

A Heck reaction for a seven membered ring

Silas Cook and colleague at Indiana University have reported in Organic Letters on a formal synthesis of englerin.

OL paper

NHK coupling asymmetrically

The Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi coupling couples an a R-halide group with an aldehyde.  Kishi and co-workers have reported on a catalytic, asymmetric version in JACS recently.

JACS paper

Click cascade

Qian Cai and co-workers from Guanzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health have reported in Organic Letters on a click reaction followed by cross coupling.

OL paper

Trifluoromethylation of vinyltrifluoroborates

Buchwald and co-workers have reported in ACIEE on an iron catalyzed trifluoromethylation of vinyltrifluoroborates.

ACIEE paper

Enantiospecific Suzuki-Miyaura

Michinori Suginome and co-workers at Kyoto University have published in JACS on the enantiospecificity of a Suzuki-Miyaura reaction and they show that inversion or retention can occur depending on the additive.

JACS paper

Acyl silane cross coupling

Shane Krska and colleague at Merck have reported in JACS on a way to form ketones from acyl silanes using a palladium catalyst.

JACS paper