Cope rearrangement

James Gleason and colleague at McGill University have reported in ACIE on an organocatalytic Cope rearrangement.

 

ACIE paper

Transamination reaction

Here’s a transamination reaction reported in JACS. Normally pyridoxal-phosphate containing enzymes do this in nature but this is the biomimetic approach.

 

JACS paper

Chiral allenes via Mukaiyama-Aldol

Benjamin List and co-workers at Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung reported in ACIE on a Mukaiyama-Aldol approach to access axially chiral allenes.
ACIE paper

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

Epoxide to Thiiranes

Benjamin List and co-workers reported in JACS on a kinetic resolution approach to convert epoxides to thiiranes using a chiral phosphoric acid catalyst.

 

JACS paper

Haliclonin A synthesis

Pei-Qiang Huang and co-workers from Xiamen University have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of haliclonin A.

 

ACIE paper

Chiral phosphoric acid for allenamides with ketones

Dean Toste and colleague have reported in Chemical Science on the use of a chiral phosphoric acid catalyst to react allenamides with ketones. I guess the papers published in Chemical Science in 2015 and 2016 are all open access.

 

Chemical Science paper

Back to Back Method Papers: Allenamide + Aldehyde = alpha-Alkylation

Fernando Lopez and co-workers at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela have reported in Chemical Communications on a gold/organocatalyst-cocatalyzed alpha alkylation of aldehydes. Interestingly Jose Gonzalez and co-workers at Universidad de Oviedo also reported in Chem Comm on a gold/organocatalyst reaction.

 

Chem Comm paper

 

Chem Comm paper 2

Hetero-Diels-Alder/Oxy-Michael cascade

John Gao and co-workers from UT San Antonio have reported in ACIE on the use of modularly designed organocatalysts (MDO) to effect a hetero-Diels-Alder/oxy-Michael cascade reaction.

 

ACIE paper

Cascade cyclization

Hiroaki Sasai and co-workers at Osaka University have reported in ACIE on a domino reaction involving the coupling between an allenoate ester and dienones.

ACIE paper