Asymmetric aminoboration of alkenes

Masahiro Miura and co-workers from Osaka University have reported in JACS on an olefin difunctionalization.

JACS 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

Aziridinone oxidant

Yian Shi and co-workers have published in OL on a copper catalyzed oxidation of alcohols using an aziridinone oxidant.

OL paper

Thiophenes from Simmons-Smith

Kanchugarakoppal Rangappa and co-workers at the University of Mysore in India have reported in Tetrahedron Letters on the synthesis of thiophenes using a Simmons-Smith reagent.

TL paper

1,4-conjugate addition in water

Bruce Lipshutz and co-workers have reported in JACS on a organocuprate Michael addition in WATER.

JACS 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

Halogen migration

Jennifer Schomaker and co-workers from the University of Wisconsin have reported in JACS on a copper catalyzed 1,3-halogen migration reaction.

 

JACS 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

Copper Catalyzed C-N Bond Formation

Nello Mainolfi and co-workers at Novartis have reported in Chemical Science on a copper catalyzed decarboxylative C-N bond forming reaction.

Chemical Science paper

Copper catalyzed cascade

Sherry Chemler and co-workers at SUNY Buffalo have reported in JACS on a copper catalyzed cycloetherification.

JACS paper