Desymmetrization with proline and Pd

Yi-Xia Jia and co-workers from Zhejiang University have reported in JACS on an intramolecular desymmetrization by a Heck reaction.

 

JACS paper

Rest in Peace Richard Heck

ACIE paper

Reductive Heck reaction

Yi-Xia Jia and co-workers have reported in JACS on an intramolecular Heck reaction.

JACS paper

Silyl Heck reaction

Donald Watson and colleague have reported in JACS on silyl Heck variant.

JACS paper

A Heck reaction for a seven membered ring

Silas Cook and colleague at Indiana University have reported in Organic Letters on a formal synthesis of englerin.

OL paper

Daphmanidin synthesis

Erick Carreira and co-worker have reported in ACIEE on the synthesis of daphmanidin.

ACIEE paper

Oxidative Heck

Hequan Yao and co-workers from China Pharmaceutical University have reported in Tetrahedron Letters on a palladium catalyzed oxidative Heck coupling.

TL paper

Allyl alcohol transformation

Jianliang Xiao and co-workers at the University of Liverpool have reported in Organic Letters on a one pot transformation of an allyl alcohol substrate to access dihydrochalcones.

OL paper

Aspidophylline synthesis

Neil Garg and co-workers from UCLA have reported in JACS on their synthesis of aspidophylline where the key reaction was an interrupted Fischer indolization.

JACS paper

Crinine Synthesis

Xiaodong Yang and co-workers at Yunnan University have published in Synlett on their formal synthesis of crinine.  The seven membered ring with an exocyclic methylene was synthesized by an intramolecular Heck reaction.

 

Synlett paper