Hydrovinylation with cobalt

Rajanbabu and colleague at Ohio State have reported in JACS on an asymmetric hydrovinylation of a diene using a cobalt catalyst.

JACS paper

Daphmanidin synthesis

Erick Carreira and co-worker have reported in ACIEE on the synthesis of daphmanidin.

ACIEE 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

Naseseazines synthesis

Mohammed Movassaghi and co-worker have reported in JACS on their synthesis of naseseazines.

JACS paper

Cobalt catalyzed Michael addition of alkyne to enone

Tamio Hayashi and co-workers at Kyoto University have reported in Chem Comm on a cobalt catalyzed Michael addition of an alkyne onto an enone.

Chem Comm paper

Lactone formation

Akiya Ogawa and co-workers at Osaka University have reported in Organometallics on a cobalt catalyzed reaction that forms lactones from an alkyne and two CO units.

OM paper

Scalable syntheses of axinellamines

Phil Baran and co-workers have reported in JACS on their scalable synthesis of axinellamines.

JACS paper

Cobalt Catalyzed Conjugate Addition

Chien-Hong Cheng and co-workers at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan have published in JACS on a cobalt catalyzed alkyne addition onto an enone.

JACS paper

Meloscine Synthesis

Chisato Mukai and colleagues have reported in Organic Letters on their synthesis of meloscine via a Pauson-Khand reaction.

 

OL paper

Oxidation/Cyclization Cascade

Jens Hartung and co-workers at Technische Universitat Kaiserslautern have reported in JACS on a cobalt catalyzed formation of a substituted tetrahydrofuran product from an alkenol and an alkynoate.

JACS paper