Palladium-Catalyzed Reduction of Carboxylic Acids to Aldehydes with Hydrosilanes in the Presence of Pivalic Anhydride

Tetsuaki Fujihara, Cong Cong, Jun Terao and Yasushi Tsuji

 Adv. Synth. Catal. 2013, 355, 3420 – 3424

 DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201300451

Convenient and Reliable Routes Towards 2-Aminothiazoles: Palladium-Catalyzed versus Copper-Catalyzed Aminations of Halothiazoles

Stéphanie Toulot, Timo Heinrich and Frédéric R. Leroux

 Adv. Synth. Catal. 2013, 355, 3263 – 3272

 DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201300591

Copper-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative C -H Functionalization of Substituted Pyridines: Synthesis of Imidazopyridine Derivatives

Jipan Yu, Yunhe Jin, Hao Zhang, Xiaobo Yang and Prof. Dr. Hua Fu

 Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 16804 – 16808

 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201302737

A Highly Efficient and Enantioselective Intramolecular Cannizzaro Reaction under TOX/Cu(II) Catalysis

Pan Wang, Wen-Jie Tao, Xiu-Li Sun, Saihu Liao, and Yong Tang 

 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135 (45), pp 16849–16852 

DOI: 10.1021/ja409859x

An Efficient Generation of a Functionalized Tertiary-Alkyl Radical for Copper-catalyzed Tertiary-Alkylative Mizoroki-Heck type Reaction

Takashi Nishikata, Yushi Noda, Ryo Fujimoto, and Tomomi Sakashita

 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135 (44), pp 16372–16375 

DOI: 10.1021/ja409661n

Cu(OTf)2-Mediated Fluorination of Aryltrifluoroborates with Potassium Fluoride

Yingda Ye, Sydonie D. Schimler, Patrick S. Hanley, and Melanie S. Sanford 

 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135 (44), pp 16292–16295 

DOI: 10.1021/ja408607r

Simple Catalytic Mechanism for the Direct Coupling of α-Carbonyls with Functionalized Amines: A One-Step Synthesis of Plavix

Ryan W. Evans, Jason R. Zbieg, Shaolin Zhu, Wei Li, and David W. C. MacMillan

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135 (43), pp 16074–16077

DOI: 10.1021/ja4096472

Catalytic Cyanation of Carbon-Carbon Triple Bonds Through a Three-Component Cross-Coupling Reaction under Nickel Catalysis

Xiaofei Yang, Shigeru Arai and Atsushi Nishida

 Adv. Synth. Catal. 2013, 355, 2974 – 2981

 DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201300553

Diastereoselective Methyl Orthoformate Alkylations of Chiral N-Acylthiazolidinethiones Catalyzed by Nickel(II) Complexes

Juan Manuel Romo, Erik Gálvez, Ignasi Nubiola, Pedro Romea, Fèlix Urpí and Max Kindred

 Adv. Synth. Catal. 2013, 355, 2781 – 2786

 DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201300521

Enantio- and Regioselective CuH-Catalyzed Hydroamination of Alkenes

Shaolin Zhu, Nootaree Niljianskul, and Stephen L. Buchwald 

 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135 (42), pp 15746–15749 

DOI: 10.1021/ja4092819

Copper(I)/ABNO-Catalyzed Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation: Alleviating Steric and Electronic Constraints of Cu/TEMPO Catalyst Systems

Janelle E. Steves and Shannon S. Stahl 

 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135 (42), pp 15742–15745 

DOI: 10.1021/ja409241h