Fe-catalyzed C-H amination

Theodore Betley and co-worker have reported in Science on an iron catalyzed C-H amination.

Science paper

Mitsunobu with a catalytic twist

Hiroyuki Ishibashi and co-workers at Kanazawa University have reported in ACIE on a Mitsunobu reaction where they use an iron catalyst and oxygen to regenerate the active azo reagent.

ACIE paper

Aminohydroxylation of alkenes

Hao Xu and co-workers at Georgia State University have reported in JACS on an iron catalyzed aminohydroxylation reaction.

JACS paper

Spirangien A synthesis

Mark Rizzacasa and co-workers from the University of Melbourne have reported in Organic Letters on their formal synthesis of spirangien A.

OL paper

ortho-Naphthoquinone methides

Hironao Sajiki and co-workers from Gifu Pharmaceutical University have reported in ACIE on a generation of naphthoquinone methides using an iron catalyst.

ACIE paper

Fluorination of alkenes

Dale Boger and colleague have reported in JACS on process involving the fluorination of an alkene using super stoichiometric amounts of iron and excess sodium borohydride.

JACS paper

Nitroso-ene reaction followed by reduction

Radhey Srivastava and co-workers at the University of Louisiana have reported in JOC on a nitroso-ene reaction.

JOC paper

Vinblastine analogs

Dale Boger and colleagues have reported in Organic Letters on the functionalization of alkenes using iron. When I first saw vinblastine I thought of Dale Boger because he does so much work on this compound and it looks like I was thinking the right person.

OL paper

Trifluoromethylation of vinyltrifluoroborates

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

ACIEE paper

Evidence of iron-oxo

Miquel Costas and co-workers at Universitat de Girona in Spain have reported in Nature Chemistry on the observation of an iron-oxo complex using mass spectrometry.

Nature Chemistry paper