Expect the unexpected – allylic alcohols from epoxides

Margaret Brimble and co-workers from the University of Auckland have reported in Organic Letters on a cobalt-catalyzed conversion of an epoxide to an allylic alcohol using the Corey-Chaykovsky reagent.

 

OL paper

Co-catalyzed hydrosilylation

Patrick Holland (Yale) and Daniel Weix (Rochester) and co-workers have reported in JACS on a cobalt catalyzed hydrosilylation.

JACS paper

C-N Bond formation with cobalt

Sukbok Chang and colleague from KAIST have reported in ACIE on a cobalt-catalyzed amidation of arenes using dioxazolones.

ACIE paper

Co-catalyzed reduction of nitriles to amines

David Milstein and co-workers from Weizman Institute of Science have reported in JACS on a cobalt-pincer complex that reduces nitriles to primary amines.

JACS paper

Multi-component coupling with cobalt

Xiaobing Wan and co-workers from Soochow University have reported in ACIE on a multi-component coupling approach to access β-Ester-γ-amino ketones.

ACIE paper

Hydroacylation of 1,3-dienes

Vy Dong and co-workers have reported in JACS on a cobalt mediated hydroacylation.

JACS paper

Hydroboration – interesting

Paul Chirik and colleague from Princeton have reported in JACS on an interesting hydroboration.

JACS paper

Hydrovinylation with cobalt

Rajanbabu and colleague at Ohio State have reported in JACS on an asymmetric hydrovinylation of a diene using a cobalt catalyst.

JACS paper

Daphmanidin synthesis

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

ACIEE paper

Epoxide opening with a fluoride

Abigail Doyle and colleague have reported in JACS on an epoxide ring opening reaction using a fluoride group.

JACS Paper