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

Carbonylative Heck Reaction

Matthias Beller and co-workers at Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e.V. Albert-Einstein-Strasse have published in ACIEE on a palladium catalyzed carbonylative Heck reaction.

ACIEE paper

Lycodine Synthesis

Masahiro Hirama and co-workers at Tohoku University have published in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry on the synthesis of lycodine.

European JOC paper

Indene Synthesis

Mark Lautens and co-worker at the University of Toronto have published in Organic Letters on the use of a gem-dibromoalkene to form an indene ring and a new C-C bond via an intermolecular Suzuki/Heck reaction.  Usually we see alkynes as precursors to these transition metal catalyzed indene formations, but this dibromo-olefin is another approach.

OL paper

Carboamination Using Palladium

John Wolfe and co-workers from the University of Michigan have recently reported in Organic Letters on a carboamination process involving a palladium catalyst.

OL paper

C-CN Cleavage with Rh

Naoto Chatani and co-workers from Osaka University have recently reported in Organic Letters on a rhodium catalyzed C-C cleavage of an aryl cyanide substrate and coupled the aryl unit to an sp2-carbon.

OL paper