Synthesis of Biaryls through Aromatic C -H Bond Activation: A Review of Recent Developments

Ibrar Hussain and Tripti Singh

 Adv. Synth. Catal. 2014, 356, 1661 – 1696

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Cationic iridium-catalyzed enantioselective activation of secondary sp3 C–H bond adjacent to nitrogen atom

Shiguang Pan, Yusuke Matsuo, Kohei Endo, Takanori Shibata

Tetrahedron

Volume 68, Issue 44, 4 November 2012, Pages 9009–9015

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2012.08.071

Iridium-Catalyzed Alkylation of Methylquinolines with Alcohols

Yasushi Obora, Shinji Ogawa, and Nobuyuki Yamamoto

J. Org. Chem., 2012, 77 (20), pp 9429–9433

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Highly enantioselective hydrogenation of new 2-functionalized quinoline derivatives

Anna M. Maj, Isabelle Suisse, Catherine Méliet, Christophe Hardouin, Francine Agbossou-Niedercorn

Tetrahedron Letters

Volume 53, Issue 35, 29 August 2012, Pages 4747–4750

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2012.06.114

Transition metal-catalyzed addition of C-, N- and O-nucleophiles to unactivated C–C multiple bonds

Nitin T. Patil, Rahul D. Kavthe, Valmik S. Shinde

Tetrahedron

Volume 68, Issue 39, 30 September 2012, Pages 8079–8146

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2012.05.125

The application of pyranoside phosphite-pyridine ligands to enantioselective Ir-catalyzed hydrogenations of highly unfunctionalized olefins

Jessica Margalef, Matteo Lega, Francesco Ruffo, Oscar Pàmies, Montserrat Diéguez

Tetrahedron: Asymmetry

Volume 23, Issue 13, 15 July 2012, Pages 945–951

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tetasy.2012.06.025

Geminal Carbon–Hydrogen Bond Activation in Cumulenes Promoted by Adjacent Iridium/Ruthenium Centers

 

Tiffany J. MacDougall, Rahul G. Samant, Steven J. Trepanier, Michael J. Ferguson, Robert McDonald, and Martin Cowie*

Organometallics, 2012, 31 (5), pp 1857–1869

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Enantioselective iridium-catalyzed hydrogenation of α-arylcinnamic acids and synthesis of (S)-equol

Shuang Yang, Shou-Fei Zhu, Can-Ming Zhang, Song Song, Yan-Bo Yu, Shen Li, Qi-Lin Zhou

Tetrahedron

Volume 68, Issue 26, 1 July 2012, Pages 5172–5178

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2012.03.118

Highly Selective Trifluoromethylation of 1,3-Disubstituted Arenes through Iridium-Catalyzed Arene Borylation

Tianfei Liu, Xinxin Shao, Dr. Yaming Wu and Prof. Dr. Qilong Shen*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 51, 540–543

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Origins of Enantioselectivity during Allylic Substitution Reactions Catalyzed by Metallacyclic Iridium Complexes

Sherzod T. Madrahimov and John F. Hartwig

J. Am. Chem. Soc., Article ASAP

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Recent advances in transition metal-catalyzed enantioselective hydrogenation of unprotected enamines

Jian-Hua Xie ,  Shou-Fei Zhu and Qi-Lin Zhou

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, Advance Article

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Catalytic functionalization of unactivated primary C–H bonds directed by an alcohol

 

Eric M. Simmons & John F. Hartwig 

Nature, 483, 70–73 (01 March 2012)

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Iridium Diamine Catalyst for the Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones

Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed.

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Henar Vázquez-Villa, Stefan Reber, Martin A. Ariger, Erick M. Carreira

Highly Enantioselective Asymmetric Isomerization of Primary Allylic Alcohols with an Iridium-N,P Complex

Chem. Eur. J., Early view

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Jia-Qi Li, Byron Peters, Pher G. Andersson

Hydrogenation of imino bonds with half-sandwich metal catalysts

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Chao Wang, Barbara Villa-Marcos, Jianliang Xiao

Enantio- and Regioselective Iridium-Catalyzed Allylic Hydroxylation

Martin Gartner, Steffen Mader, Kai Seehafer, and Gunter Helmchen

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