Cu-Catalyzed Cascades to Carbocycles: Union of Diaryliodonium Salts with Alkenes or Alkynes Exploiting Remote Carbocations

Fengzhi Zhang, Shoubhik Das, Andrew J. Walkinshaw, Alicia Casitas, Michael Taylor, Marcos G. Suero, and Matthew J. Gaunt 

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Scandium-Catalyzed Cascade Cyclization to Produce Cyclobutane-Fused Tetrahydroquinoline, Chromane, Thiochromane, and Tetrahydronaphthalene Derivatives

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Catalytic Anti-Markovnikov Hydrobromination of Alkynes

Mycah R. Uehling, Richard P. Rucker, and Gojko Lalic 

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136 (24), pp 8799–8803

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Catalytic Asymmetric 1,3-Dipolar [3 + 6] Cycloaddition of Azomethine Ylides with 2-Acyl Cycloheptatrienes: Efficient Construction of Bridged Heterocycles Bearing Piperidine Moiety

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 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136 (24), pp 8685–8692 

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