Anti-Markovnikov oxidation of allylic esters

Ben Feringa and co-workers at the University of Groningen have reported in ACIE on a palladium catalzyed anti-Markovnikov oxidation of allylic esters.  This is the opposite of what we see in a Wacker-Tsuji process.

ACIE paper

Chiral allene synthesis

Doug Frantz and co-workers at UT San Antonio have reported in JACS on a palladium catalyzed asymmetric approach to synthesizing axially chiral allenes through beta-hydride elimination.

JACS paper

Pd-catalyzed 3 component coupling

Matthew Sigman and colleague at the University of Utah have reported in JACS on a palladium catalyzed three component coupling reaction.

JACS paper

Aminopalladation

Jieping Zhu and co-workers from CNRS have reported in Tetrahedron on an aminopalladation reaction.

Tetrahedron paper

Spontaneous Diels-Alder

Craig Merlic and co-workers from UCLA have reported in Organic Letters on a spontaneous transannular Diels-Alder when they used a palladium catalyzed C-C bond forming strategy.

OL paper

Allylation

David Lupton and colleague from Monash University have reported in ACIE on a Tsuji-Trost approach for the synthesis of (−)-Kopsihainanine A.

ACIE paper

pyridines from allenes

Andrei Yudin and co-workers from the University of Toronto have reported in OL on the synthesis of pyridines from allenes.

OL paper

C-H arylation of cyclopropanes

Nicolai Cramer and co-worker from ETH Zurich have reported in ACIE on a C-H arylation of cyclopropanes.

ACIE paper

Paspalinine synthesis

Shigefumi Kuwahara and co-workers from Tohoku University have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of paspalinine.

ACIE paper

Aromatization with palladium

Naohiko Yoshikai and co-workers from Nanyang Technological University have reported in Organic Letters on the conversion of cyclohexanone to anlines using palladium and 1 atmosphere of oxygen.

OL paper