Archive for the ‘Carbene’ Category
Posted by naturalproductman on July 4, 2016
Wen-Jing Xiao and co-workers from Central China Normal University have reported in JACS on an asymmetric [4+1] reaction between a copper allenylidene and sulfur ylide.
JACS paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on April 19, 2016
Daniel Sole and co-workers at Universidad Complutense de Madrid have reported in ACIE on the generation of palladium carbenoids from diazo precursors to effect an intramolecular C-H insertion.
ACIE paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on July 30, 2015
Peter Chen and co-workers from ETH Zurich have reported in ACIE on a nickel catalyzed cyclopropanation. Looks similar to a Corey-Chaykovsky cyclopropanation because of the formation of an ylide.

ACIE paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on July 1, 2015
Xiaoming Feng and co-workers from Sichuan University have reported in the transformation of terminal alkynes to allenoates using diazo acetates.

ACIE paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on April 12, 2015
Ming-Hua Xu and co-workers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported in JACS on a rhodium catalyzed carbene insertion into a B-H bond.

JACS paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on March 25, 2015
David Lupton and co-workers at Monash University have reported in Chemical Science on a method to synthesize substituted benzenes from acyclic precursors.

Chemical Science paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on March 5, 2015
Ming-Hua Xu and co-workers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported in JACS on a rhodium catalyzed transformation of a diazo to an organoborane.

JACS paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on October 4, 2014
David Lupton and co-worker at Monash University have reported in JACS on an NHC-catalyzed [4+2] reaction.

JACS paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on May 6, 2014
Carlos Saa and co-workers at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela have reported in ACIE on a reaction involving a ruthenium cascade followed by C-O formation to form dihydropyrans.

ACIE paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on January 16, 2013
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
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