Triazole annulation

Huw Davies and colleague from Emory University have reported in JACS on an indole annulation using a triazole.

JACS paper

Rh-cascade

Ken Tanaka and co-workers at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have reported in Org Lett on a rhodium catalyzed cascade reaction to yield substituted cyclopentanones.

OL paper

Rh-cascade

Richmond Sarpong and colleague have reported in JACS on a synthesis of a cycloprodigiosin.

JACS paper

That’s pretty strained

Fumitoshi Kakiuchi and co-workers from Keio University have reported in Org Lett on a rhodium catalyzed [2+2] reaction between a terminal alkyne and an electron deficient alkene to form a cyclobutene.

OL paper

C-Si bond formation

Kazuhiko Takai and co-workers from Okayama University have reported in Organic Letters on a rhodium catalyzed C-H activation process that forms a new C-Si bond.

OL paper

Pyridines from 2H-azirines

Cheol-Min Park and co-workers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of pyridines from 2H-azirines.

ACIE paper

Imidazoles from rhodium

Jonathan Ellman and co-workers from Yale have reported in ACIE on a rhodium catalyzed reaction to form pyrroles.

ACIE paper

C-H vs. C-C

Chisato Mukai and co-workers from Kanazawa University have reported in JACS on a rhodium catalyzed transformation that either results in a C-C bond cleavage or C-H bond activation reaction depending on the ligand.

JACS paper

Rhodium catalyzed reaction

P. Andrew Evans (University of Liverpool) and Mu-Hyun Baik (Indiana University) and co-workers have published in JACS on a mechanistic investigation of a rhodium catalyzed [3+2+1] cyclization. The Los Alamos LACVP basis set was used to represent rhodium.

JACS paper

Intermolecular [6+2]

Yoshihiro Sato and co-workers at Hokkaido University have published in ACIE on an intermolecular rhodium catalyzed [6+2] reaction.

ACIE paper