Metal-Catalyzed [6 + 3] Cycloaddition of Tropone with Azomethine Ylides: A Practical Access to Piperidine-Fused Bicyclic Heterocycles

Honglei Liu, Yang Wu, Yan Zhao, Zhen Li, Lei Zhang, Wenjun Yang, Hui Jiang, Chengfeng Jing, Hao Yu, Bo Wang, Yumei Xiao, and Hongchao Guo 

 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136 (6), pp 2625–2629 

DOI: 10.1021/ja4122268

Copper-Catalyzed Intermolecular Amidation and Imidation of Unactivated Alkanes

Ba L. Tran, Bijie Li, Matthias Driess, and John F. Hartwig 

 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136 (6), pp 2555–2563

DOI: 10.1021/ja411912p

A Mild Ni/Cu-Catalyzed Silylation via C–O Cleavage

Cayetana Zarate and Ruben Martin 

 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136 (6), pp 2236–2239 

DOI: 10.1021/ja412107b

Synthesis of 2-Arylbenzoxazoles through Oxidation of C–H Bonds Adjacent to Oxygen Atoms

 

Lijun Gu, 
Wei Wang, 
Yong Xiong,
Xiangzhong Huang, 
Ganpeng Li

1. European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2014, 2, 319–322

2. DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201301504

Iron(II)-catalysed [2+2+2] cycloaddition for pyridine ring construction

Richard, V.; Ipouck, M.; Merel, D. S.; Gaillard, S.; Whitby, R. J.; Witulski, B.; Renaud, J. L.

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 593-595

DOI: 10.1039/C3CC47700B

The Iron-Catalysed Construction of 2-Aminopyrimidines from Alkynenitriles and Cyanamides

Janis Louie,   Timothy K Lane,   Minh H. Nguyen,  Brendan D'Souza and   Nathan Alan Spahn 

Chem. Commun., 2013,  49, 7735-7737

DOI: 10.1039/C3CC44422H

FeCl3 mediated intramolecular olefin-cation cyclisation of cinnamates for the synthesis of highly substituted indenes

Dattatraya Dethe and   Ganesh Murhade 

Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 8051-8053

DOI: 10.1039/C3CC43159B

Fe-Promoted Cross Coupling of Homobenzylic Methyl Ethers with Grignard Reagents via sp3 C-O Bond Cleavage

Zhang-Jie Shi,   Shuang Luo,   Da-Gang Yu,   Ru-Yi Zhu,  Xin Wang and   Lei Wang 

Chem. Commun.  2013,49, 7794-7796

DOI: 10.1039/C3CC43616K

Selective Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes using Well-defined Iron-Phosphine Catalysts

Gerrit Wienhöfer,   Mario Baseda,   Carolin Ziebart,  Felix A. Westerhaus,   Wolfgang Baumann,   Kathrin Junge,  Ralf Jackstell and   Matthias Beller  

Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 9089-9091

DOI: 10.1039/C3CC42983K