Chemical Science,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
14(5), P. 1301 - 1307
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
High-valent
metal
oxo
complexes
are
prototypical
intermediates
for
the
activation
and
hydroxylation
of
alkyl
C-H
bonds.
Substituting
ligand
with
other
functional
groups
offers
opportunity
additional
functionalization
beyond
C-O
bond
formation.
However,
few
species
aside
from
have
been
reported
to
both
activate
functionalize
We
herein
report
first
example
an
isolated
copper(iii)
cyanide
complex
(LCuIIICN)
its
cyanation
reactivity.
found
that
redox
potential
(Eox)
substrates,
instead
dissociation
energy,
is
a
key
determinant
rate
PCET,
suggesting
oxidative
asynchronous
CPET
or
ETPT
mechanism.
Among
substrates
same
BDEs,
those
low
potentials
transfer
H
atoms
up
million-fold
faster.
Capitalizing
on
this
mechanistic
insight,
we
LCuIIICN
highly
selective
amines,
which
predisposed
stepwise
H+/e-.
Our
study
demonstrates
effect
PCET
appealing
tool
controlling
selectivity
functionalization.
Chemical Society Reviews,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
51(5), P. 1640 - 1658
Published: Jan. 1, 2022
Radical-involved
transition
metal
(TM)
catalysis
has
greatly
enabled
new
reactivities
in
recent
decades.
Copper-catalyzed
radical
relay
offers
enormous
potential
C(sp3)-H
functionalization
which
combines
the
unique
regioselectivity
of
hydrogen
atom
transfer
(HAT)
and
versatility
copper-catalyzed
cross-coupling.
More
importantly,
significant
progress
been
achieved
asymmetric
C-H
through
judicious
ligand
design.
This
tutorial
review
will
highlight
advances
this
rapidly
growing
area,
we
hope
survey
inspire
future
strategic
developments
for
selective
functionalization.
Chemical Science,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
13(29), P. 8491 - 8506
Published: Jan. 1, 2022
Allenes
are
valuable
organic
molecules
that
feature
unique
physical
and
chemical
properties.
They
not
only
often
found
in
natural
products,
but
also
act
as
versatile
building
blocks
for
the
access
of
complex
molecular
targets,
such
pharmaceuticals,
functional
materials.
Therefore,
many
remarkable
elegant
methodologies
have
been
established
synthesis
allenes.
Recently,
more
methods
radical
allenes
developed,
clearly
emphasizing
associated
great
synthetic
values.
In
this
perspective,
we
will
discuss
recent
important
advances
Journal of the American Chemical Society,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
146(13), P. 9241 - 9251
Published: March 19, 2024
Much
attention
has
been
focused
on
the
catalytic
asymmetric
creation
of
single
chiral
centers
or
two
adjacent
stereocenters.
However,
construction
nonadjacent
stereocenters
is
significant
importance
but
challenging
because
lack
remote
induction
models.
Herein,
based
a
C═C
bond
relay
strategy,
we
report
synergistic
Pd/Cu-catalyzed
1,5-double
model.
All
four
stereoisomers
target
products
bearing
1,5-nonadjacent
involving
both
allenyl
axial
and
central
chirality
could
be
obtained
divergently
by
simply
changing
combination
catalysts
with
different
configurations.
Control
experiments
DFT
calculations
reveal
novel
mechanism
1,5-oxidative
addition,
contra-thermodynamic
η3-allyl
palladium
shift,
conjugate
nucleophilic
substitution,
which
play
crucial
roles
in
control
reactivity,
regio-,
enantio-,
diastereoselectivity.
It
expected
that
this
strategy
may
provide
general
protocol
for
synthesis
structural
motifs
distant
ACS Catalysis,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
11(21), P. 13363 - 13373
Published: Oct. 19, 2021
Reactions
involving
allenyl
ion
intermediates
have
been
widely
applied
in
the
synthesis
of
functionalized
allenes,
but
reactions
radicals
less
studied
and
limited
successful
examples
realized
mainly
by
transition
metal
catalysis.
We
herein
demonstrate
generation
N-heterocyclic
carbene
(NHC)
organocatalysis
their
applications
three-component
radical
relay
1,4-alkylcarbonylation
1,3-enynes
without
participation.
This
strategy
could
accommodate
a
collection
different
alkyl
precursors
such
as
CF3I,
halides,
cycloketone
oxime
esters,
aliphatic
carboxylic
acid
derived
redox-active
enabling
convenient
pathway
to
access
range
synthetically
challenging
tetra-substituted
ketones
with
high
regioselectivity.
The
key
success
this
protocol
relied
on
Csp-C(O)sp2
radical–radical
coupling
NHC-bound
ketyl
radicals,
constructing
ketone
motifs
highly
efficient
reaction
pathway.
Journal of the American Chemical Society,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
144(33), P. 15383 - 15390
Published: Aug. 11, 2022
A
manganese-catalyzed
highly
site-
and
enantioselective
benzylic
C–H
azidation
of
indolines
has
been
described.
The
practical
method
is
applicable
for
a
tertiary
bond
with
good
functional
group
tolerance,
allowing
facile
access
to
structurally
diverse
azide-containing
in
high
efficiency
excellent
site-,
chemo-,
enantioselectivity.
generality
the
was
further
demonstrated
by
secondary
range
indolines.
allows
straightforwardly
enantioselectively
install
variety
nitrogen-based
groups
bioactive
molecules
at
C3
position
indoline
frameworks
through
post-azidation
manipulations.
Gram-scale
synthesis
also
demonstrated,
highlighting
synthetic
potential
method.
Mechanistic
studies
combined
experiments
computations
elucidated
reaction
mechanism
origins
stereoselectivity.
Journal of the American Chemical Society,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
145(24), P. 13476 - 13483
Published: June 10, 2023
A
novel
asymmetric
radical
strategy
for
the
straightforward
synthesis
of
atropisomerically
chiral
vinyl
arenes
has
been
established
herein,
proceeding
through
copper-catalyzed
atroposelective
cyanation/azidation
aryl-substituted
radicals.
Critical
to
success
relay
process
is
capture
highly
reactive
radicals
with
L*Cu(II)
cyanide
or
azide
species.
Moreover,
these
axially
vinylarene
products
can
be
easily
transformed
into
enriched
amides
and
amines,
enantiomerically
benzyl
nitriles
via
an
axis-to-center
chirality
transfer
process,
pure
organocatalyst
chemo-,
diastereo-,
enantioselective
(4
+
2)
cyclization
reaction.
Journal of the American Chemical Society,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
146(30), P. 21137 - 21146
Published: July 18, 2024
The
different
enantiomers
of
specific
chiral
molecules
frequently
exhibit
disparate
biological,
physiological,
or
pharmacological
properties.
Therefore,
the
efficient
synthesis
single
is
particular
importance
not
only
to
pharmaceutical
sector
but
also
other
industrial
sectors,
such
as
agrochemical
and
fine
chemical
industries.
Deracemization,
a
process
during
which
racemic
mixture
converted
into
nonracemic
product
with
100%
atom
economy
theoretical
yield,
most
straightforward
method
access
enantioenriched
challenging
task
due
decrease
in
entropy
microscopic
reversibility.
Axially
allenes
bear
distinctive
structure
two
orthogonal
cumulative
π-systems
are
acknowledged
synthetically
versatile
synthons
organic
synthesis.
selective
creation
axially
high
optical
purity
under
mild
reaction
conditions
has
always
been
very
popular
hot
topic
remains
challenging.
Herein,
photoexcited
palladium-catalyzed
deracemization
nonprefunctionalized
disubstituted
disclosed.
This
provides
an
economical
strategy
accommodate
broad
scope
good
enantioselectivities
yields
(53
examples,
up
96%
yield
95%
ee).
use
suitable
palladium
complex
visible
light
irradiation
essential
factor
achieving
this
transformation.
A
metal-to-ligand
charge
transfer
mechanism
was
proposed
based
on
control
experiments
density
functional
theory
calculations.
Quantum
mechanical
studies
implicate
dual
modes
asymmetric
induction
behind
our
new
protocol:
(1)
sterically
controlled
stereoselective
binding
one
allene
enantiomer
ground-state
(2)
facile,
noncovalent
interaction-driven
excited-state
isomerization
toward
opposite
enantiomer.
success
newly
established
photochemical
should
provide
inspiration
for
expansion
multisubstituted
will
open
mode
enantioselective
catalysis.
ACS Catalysis,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(13), P. 9940 - 9954
Published: June 19, 2024
Metal-catalyzed
allenylic
substitution
reactions
where
allenes
serve
as
electrophilic
precursors
have
been
recognized
a
rapid
way
for
novel
allene
construction.
On
the
contrary,
chemistry
in
which
act
nucleophiles
has
far
less
investigated,
especially
powerful
platform
such
metal-catalyzed
allylic
alkylation
reactions.
We
herein
describe
two
unprecedented
palladium-catalyzed
of
an
nucleophile.
In
first
reaction,
using
vinyloxazolidinones
allyl
precursor,
asymmetric
allylation
trisubstituted
allenones
worked
well
to
prepare
array
axially
chiral
tetrasubstituted
allenes.
Mechanistic
studies
and
density
functional
theory
(DFT)
calculations
indicated
that
weak
hydrogen-bonding
interaction
between
acidic
C(sp2)–H
allenone
nitrogen
anion
π-azaallyl-Pd
species
is
key
success
stereocontrol.
This
reaction
revealed
intriguing
reactivity
nucleophilic
time.
second
with
use
allenylethylene
carbonates
π-oxyallyl-Pd
precursors,
presented
unique
under
different
conditions
provide
divergent
synthetic
access
(E)-
(Z)-allenyl
diene
products.
Interestingly,
subsequent
sequential
intramolecular
cyclization/isomerization
(Z)-product
delivered
dihydrooxepine
derivatives
[5
+
2]
annulation
Organic Chemistry Frontiers,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
9(18), P. 5053 - 5073
Published: Jan. 1, 2022
Recent
advances
in
the
metal-catalyzed
asymmetric
synthesis
of
chiral
allenes
are
summarized.
This
review
is
categorized
based
on
starting
material,
including
alkynes,
racemic
allenes,
and
conjugated
dienes.