Archive for the ‘Rhodium’ Category
Posted by naturalproductman on September 7, 2016
Hon-Wai Lam and co-workers from the University of Nottingham have reported in JACS on a rhodium catalyzed C-H allylation process.
JACS paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on April 19, 2016
Erick Carreira and colleague have reported in Organic Letters on a rhodium catalyzed synthesis of chiral allenes from propargylic benzoates.
OL paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on April 6, 2016
Bernhard Breit and co-workers reported in Chemical Communications on a rhodium catalyzed decarboxylative addition of beta-ketoacids to alkynes.
Chem Comm paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on April 5, 2016
Here’s a neat cascade reaction from Sreenivas Katukojvala and colleague at Indian Institute of Science Education & Research involving the use of rhodium, gold, and diphenylphosphate to access 1,4-oxazines from enaldiazo ketones and N-propargyl anilines.
ACIE paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on March 9, 2016
At first I thought this was a ring closing metathesis reaction but the catalyst was rhodium and there is an extra allylic methyl group – it is a cycloisomerization reaction (by Vy Dong’s group).
JACS paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on January 27, 2016
Jennifer Love and co-workers from the University of British Columbia reported in Organic Letters on the use of Wilkinson’s catalyst to perform a hydrothiolation reaction across an alkyne to synthesize K777, a cysteine protease inhibitor.
OL paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on October 21, 2015
Guangbin Dong and colleague have reported in JACS on an intramolecular coupling between cyclobutanones and allenes.
JACS paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on August 18, 2015
Jonathan Ellman and co-workers have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of ent-ketorfanol.
ACIE paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on May 28, 2015
Timothy Jamison and co-workers have reported in JACS on their formal synthesis of brevisin.
JACS paper
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Posted by naturalproductman on April 16, 2015
Zhang Jie-Shi and co-workers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported in JACS on a rhodium catalyzed exchange between an aryl keton and an aryl carboxylic acid to form aliphatic carboxylic acids and biaryl compounds.
JACS paper
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