ACS Catalysis,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
8(10), P. 9140 - 9147
Published: Aug. 15, 2018
Versatile
cobalt
catalysis
enabled
electrochemical
C–H
activation
with
allenes.
Thus,
allene
annulations
were
accomplished
in
terms
of
C–H/N–H
functionalizations
excellent
levels
chemoselectivity,
site
selectivity,
and
regioselectivity
under
exceedingly
mild
conditions.
Detailed
mechanistic
studies
conducted,
including
reactions
isotopically
labeled
compounds,
kinetic
investigations,
in-operando
infrared
spectroscopic
studies.
Further,
computational
supportive
a
non-rate-determining
cleavage
gave
key
insights
into
the
annulation.
The
practical
utility
user-friendly
approach
was
furthermore
highlighted
by
gram-scale
electrocatalysis.
Chemical Reviews,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
119(4), P. 2192 - 2452
Published: Nov. 27, 2018
C–H
activation
has
surfaced
as
an
increasingly
powerful
tool
for
molecular
sciences,
with
notable
applications
to
material
crop
protection,
drug
discovery,
and
pharmaceutical
industries,
among
others.
Despite
major
advances,
the
vast
majority
of
these
functionalizations
required
precious
4d
or
5d
transition
metal
catalysts.
Given
cost-effective
sustainable
nature
earth-abundant
first
row
metals,
development
less
toxic,
inexpensive
3d
catalysts
gained
considerable
recent
momentum
a
significantly
more
environmentally-benign
economically-attractive
alternative.
Herein,
we
provide
comprehensive
overview
on
until
summer
2018.
ACS Catalysis,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
8(8), P. 7086 - 7103
Published: June 18, 2018
C–H
activation
has
emerged
as
a
transformative
tool
in
molecular
synthesis,
but
until
recently
oxidative
activations
have
largely
involved
the
use
of
stoichiometric
amounts
expensive
and
toxic
metal
oxidants,
compromising
overall
sustainable
nature
chemistry.
In
sharp
contrast,
electrochemical
been
identified
more
efficient
strategy
that
exploits
storable
electricity
place
byproduct-generating
chemical
reagents.
Thus,
transition-metal
catalysts
were
shown
to
enable
versatile
reactions
manner.
While
palladium
catalysis
set
stage
for
C(sp2)–H
C(sp3)–H
functionalizations
by
N-containing
directing
groups,
rhodium
ruthenium
allowed
weakly
coordinating
amides
acids.
contrast
these
precious
4d
transition
metals,
recent
year
witnessed
emergence
cobalt
oxygenations,
nitrogenations,
C–C-forming
[4+2]
alkyne
annulations.
Thereby,
silver(I)
oxidants
was
prevented,
improving
environmentally
benign
catalysis.
Herein,
we
summarize
major
advances
organometallic
otherwise
inert
bonds
electrocatalysis
through
May
2018.
Accounts of Chemical Research,
Journal Year:
2019,
Volume and Issue:
53(1), P. 84 - 104
Published: Dec. 19, 2019
To
improve
the
efficacy
of
molecular
syntheses,
researchers
wish
to
capitalize
upon
selective
modification
otherwise
inert
C-H
bonds.
The
past
two
decades
have
witnessed
considerable
advances
in
coordination
chemistry
that
set
stage
for
transformative
tools
functionalizations.
Particularly,
oxidative
C-H/C-H
and
C-H/Het-H
transformations
gained
major
attention
because
they
avoid
all
elements
substrate
prefunctionalization.
Despite
advances,
activations
been
dominated
by
precious
transition
metal
catalysts
based
on
palladium,
ruthenium,
iridium,
rhodium,
thus
compromising
sustainable
nature
overall
activation
approach.
same
holds
true
predominant
use
stoichiometric
chemical
oxidants
regeneration
active
catalyst,
prominently
featuring
hypervalent
iodine(III),
copper(II),
silver(I)
oxidants.
Thereby,
quantities
undesired
byproducts
are
generated,
which
preventive
applications
scale.
In
contrast,
elegant
merger
homogeneous
metal-catalyzed
with
electrosynthesis
bears
unique
power
achieve
outstanding
levels
oxidant
resource
economy.
Thus,
contrast
classical
electrosyntheses
control,
metalla-electrocatalysis
huge
largely
untapped
potential
unmet
site
selectivities
means
catalyst
control.
While
indirect
electrolysis
using
palladium
complexes
has
realized,
less
toxic
expensive
base
feature
distinct
beneficial
assets
toward
this
Account,
I
summarize
emergence
electrocatalyzed
earth-abundant
3d
metals
beyond,
a
topical
focus
contributions
from
our
laboratories
through
November
2019.
cobalt
electrocatalysis
was
identified
as
particularly
powerful
platform
wealth
transformations,
including
oxygenations
nitrogenations
well
alkynes,
alkenes,
allenes,
isocyanides,
carbon
monoxide,
among
others.
As
complementary
tools,
nickel,
copper,
very
recently
iron
devised
metalla-electrocatalyzed
activations.
Key
success
were
detailed
mechanistic
insights,
oxidation-induced
reductive
elimination
scenarios.
Likewise,
development
methods
make
weak
O-coordination
benefited
crucial
insights
into
catalyst's
modes
action
experiment,
operando
spectroscopy,
computation.
Overall,
thereby
syntheses
These
electrooxidative
frequently
characterized
improved
chemoselectivities.
Hence,
ability
dial
redox
at
minimum
level
required
desired
transformation
renders
an
ideal
functionalization
structurally
complex
molecules
sensitive
functional
groups.
This
strategy
was,
inter
alia,
successfully
applied
scale-up
continuous
flow
step-economical
assembly
polycyclic
aromatic
hydrocarbons.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
Journal Year:
2019,
Volume and Issue:
58(37), P. 12803 - 12818
Published: May 11, 2019
Molecular
syntheses
largely
rely
on
time-
and
labour-intensive
prefunctionalization
strategies.
In
contrast,
C-H
activation
represents
an
increasingly
powerful
approach
that
avoids
lengthy
of
prefunctionalized
substrates,
with
great
potential
for
drug
discovery,
the
pharmaceutical
industry,
material
sciences,
crop
protection,
among
others.
The
enantioselective
functionalization
omnipresent
bonds
has
emerged
as
a
transformative
tool
step-
atom-economical
generation
chiral
molecular
complexity.
However,
this
rapidly
growing
research
area
remains
dominated
by
noble
transition
metals,
prominently
featuring
toxic
palladium,
iridium
rhodium
catalysts.
Indeed,
despite
significant
achievements,
use
inexpensive
sustainable
3d
metals
in
asymmetric
activations
is
still
clearly
its
infancy.
Herein,
we
discuss
remarkable
recent
progress
transformations
via
organometallic
base
up
to
April
2019.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
58(4), P. 1153 - 1157
Published: Nov. 27, 2018
Abstract
Recent
advances
in
Cp
x
M
III
catalysis
(M=Co,
Rh,
Ir)
have
enabled
a
variety
of
enantioselective
C(sp
2
)−H
functionalization
reactions,
but
3
is
still
largely
unexplored.
We
describe
an
asymmetric
amidation
thioamides
using
achiral
Co
/chiral
carboxylic
acid
hybrid
catalytic
system,
which
provides
easy
and
straightforward
access
to
chiral
β‐amino
thiocarbonyl
carbonyl
building
blocks
with
quaternary
carbon
stereocenter.
Chemical Society Reviews,
Journal Year:
2019,
Volume and Issue:
48(16), P. 4515 - 4618
Published: Jan. 1, 2019
Metal-catalyzed
regiodivergent
reactions
allow
control
over
regioselectivity
in
the
synthesis
of
a
wide
range
organic
products.
Starting
from
same
material,
it
is
possible
to
prepare
different
regioisomers
just
by
appropriately
choosing
catalyst
or
modifying
reaction
conditions.
Therefore,
these
methodologies
should
be
included
as
key
factor
concept
efficiency
and
atom
economy
synthetic
chemistry.
The
potential
this
subject
has
been
demonstrated
mainly
addition
unsaturated
carbon-carbon
bonds,
allylic
propargylic
nucleophilic
substitutions,
C-H
activation
reactions,
cross-couplings,
intramolecular
intermolecular
cyclizations.
This
review
article
overviews
development
rationalization
regiodivergence
fundamental
last
15
years.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
57(18), P. 5090 - 5094
Published: March 6, 2018
Syntheses
of
substituted
anilines
primarily
rely
on
palladium-catalyzed
coupling
chemistry
with
prefunctionalized
aryl
electrophiles.
While
oxidative
aminations
have
emerged
as
powerful
alternatives,
they
largely
produce
undesired
metal-containing
by-products
in
stoichiometric
quantities.
In
contrast,
described
herein
is
the
unprecedented
electrochemical
C-H
amination
by
cobalt-catalyzed
activation.
The
environmentally
benign
electrocatalysis
avoids
metal
oxidants,
can
be
conducted
under
ambient
air,
and
employs
a
biomass-derived,
renewable
solvent
for
sustainable
an
atom-
step-economical
manner
H2
sole
byproduct.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
57(9), P. 2383 - 2387
Published: Jan. 10, 2018
Electrochemistry
enabled
C-H/N-H
functionalizations
at
room
temperature
by
external
oxidant-free
cobalt
catalysis.
Thus,
the
sustainable
electrocatalysis
manifold
proceeds
with
excellent
levels
of
chemoselectivity
and
positional
selectivity,
ample
scope,
thus
allowing
electrochemical
C-H
activation
under
exceedingly
mild
reaction
conditions
in
water.
Journal of the American Chemical Society,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
140(25), P. 7913 - 7921
Published: May 29, 2018
Electrochemical
oxidative
C–H/N–H
activations
have
been
accomplished
with
a
versatile
cobalt
catalyst
in
terms
of
[4
+
2]
annulations
internal
alkynes.
The
electro-oxidative
C–H
activation
manifold
proved
viable
an
undivided
cell
setup
under
exceedingly
mild
reaction
conditions
at
room
temperature
using
earth-abundant
catalysts.
electrochemical
catalysis
prevents
the
use
transition
metal
oxidants
catalysis,
generating
H2
as
sole
byproduct.
Detailed
mechanistic
studies
provided
strong
support
for
facile
cobaltation
by
initially
formed
cobalt(III)
catalyst.
subsequent
alkyne
migratory
insertion
was
interrogated
mass
spectrometry
and
DFT
calculations,
providing
formation
key
seven-membered
cobalta(III)
cycle
regioselective
fashion.
Key
to
success
unprecedented
alkynes
represented
N-2-pyridylhydrazides,
which
we
developed
traceless
electrocleavage
strategy
electroreductive
samarium
temperature.