Carbonylative spirolactonization

Mingji Dai and co-workers reported in JACS on a Pd-catalyzed spirolactonization.

 

JACS paper

Amidation-C-H activation cascade

Santhosh Mhaske and colleague at CSIR have reported in Organic Letters on a palladium catalyzed amidation-C-H activation cascade.
OL paper

Palladium – olefin/insertion cascade

Vellaisamy Sridharan and co-workers from SASTRA University have reported in Organic Letters on a palladium catalyzed hydration olefin-insertion cascade.

 

OL paper

Alkoxycarbonylation of secondary bromides

Erik Alexanian and colleague have reported in JACS on a Pd-catalyzed alkoxycarbonylation of secondary bromides using CO.

 

 

JACS 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

Palladium Carbenes

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

Pd-cross coupling with vinylogous enolates

Troels Skrydstrup and co-workers at Aarhus University have reported in JACS on a palladium catalyzed coupling between Csp2-iodides and vinylogous enolates.

JACS paper

Amine/Palladium dual catalysis

Sanzhong Luo and co-workers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported in ACIE on a dual catalysis approach to alkylate beta-keto carbonyls with allylic alcohols.

ACIE paper

Pallavicinin synthesis

Yanxing Jia and co-workers from SIOC have reported in ACIE on a synthesis of pallavicinin.

ACIE paper

Aryl bromide and aryl triflate cross coupling with Ni and Pd

Daniel Weix and co-workers have reported in Nature on a multimetallic cross coupling between an aryl triflate and aryl bromide using palladium and nickel.

Nature paper