C-H oxidation

Melanie Sanford and colleague have reported in JACS on a Pt-catalyzed terminal C-H oxidation of aliphatic amines.

JACS paper

Cascade fluorination

Michael Gagne and c0-workers at UNC have published in JACS on a cascade fluorination reaction.

JACS paper

Chain-walking reaction

Takuya Kochi and co-workers at Keio University have reported in JACS on a chain walking reaction.

JACS paper

Platinum catalyzed dearomatization

Ken Tanaka and co-workers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have reported in ACIE on a platinum catalyzed dearomatization reaction.

ACIE paper

Domino reactions

Stefan Kirsch and co-workers from Technische Universität München have reported in ACIEE on their cascade reaction using either platinum or copper to form a dihydrofuran or furan from a cyclohexanone.

ACIEE paper

Reductive elimination vs. beta-hydride elimination

Michael Gagne and co-workers from UNC have reported in Organometallics on an organoplatinum compound that readily undergoes reductive elimination to form a C-F bond.

Organometallics paper

Cation-pi cyclization with platinum

Michel Gagne and co-workers at UNC have reported in ACIEE on their platinum mediated cation-pi cyclization – this paper isolates the platinum complexed to the cyclized product.  This reaction is very popular – as we know from Johnson’s observations.

ACIEE paper

C-H vs. C-S Activation

Datong Song and co-worker at the University of Toronto have reported in Organometallics on C-S and C-H activation reactions using either a platinum (0) or platinum (II) metal, respectively.

Organometallics paper

Gold vs. Platinum

Keisuke Kato and co-workers at Toho University have published in Tetrahedron on some cascade reactions mediated by gold or platinum.  Interestingly, depending on the metal, the reaction either undergoes a [3,3]-sigmatropic acyloxy rearrangement or a 1,2-acyloxy cyclization.

 

Tetrahedron paper

Platinum Carbene [3+2]

Nobuharu Iwasawa and co-workers have published in JACS on a platinum catalyzed [3+2] cycloaddition between a platinum carbene and an enol ether.

 

JACS paper