Friday, May 18, 2012

Synthesis of Hindered Anilines: Copper-Catalyzed Electrophilic Amination of Aryl Boronic Esters


Richard P. Rucker, Aaron M. Whittaker, Hester Dang and Prof. Gojko Lalic*
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 51, 3953–3956

Jacobsen Protocols for Large-Scale Epoxidation of Cyclic Dienyl Sulfones: Application to the (+)-Pretazettine Core


G. Reza Ebrahimian, Xavier Mollat du Jourdin, and Philip L. Fuchs*
Org. Lett., 2012, 14 (10), pp 2630–2633

Gold(I)-Catalyzed Stereoconvergent, Intermolecular Enantioselective Hydroamination of Allenes


Kristina L. Butler, Michele Tragni and Prof. Ross A. Widenhoefer*
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 51, 5175–5178

Monomeric Linear Diaminocarbene Complexes of Gold(I) Show Merit in Enantioselective Catalysis


Prof. Helgard G. Raubenheimer*
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 51, 5042–5044


Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Ruthenium–Arene Complexes of Curcumin: X-Ray and Density Functional Theory Structure, Synthesis, and Spectroscopic Characterization, in Vitro Antitumor Activity, and DNA Docking Studies of (p-Cymene)Ru(curcuminato)chloro

J. Med. Chem., 2012, 55 (3), pp 1072–1081

Friday, May 11, 2012

C(sp)–C(sp3) Bond Formation through Cu-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of N-Tosylhydrazones and Trialkylsilylethynes

Fei Ye, Xiaoshen Ma, Qing Xiao, Huan Li, Yan Zhang, and Jianbo Wang
 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134 (13), pp 5742–5745 

Photoactivated DNA cleavage and anticancer activity of pyrenyl-terpyridine lanthanide complexes

Akhtar Hussain, Sudarshan Gadadhar, Tridib K. Goswami, Anjali A. Karande, Akhil R. Chakravarty
Volume 50, April 2012, Pages 319–331

Copper-Mediated Difluoromethylation of Aryl and Vinyl Iodides

Patrick S. Fier and John F. Hartwig
 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134 (12), pp 5524–5527 

Use of copper(I) catalyzed azide alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) for the preparation of conjugated pyrrolo[2,3-a]carbazole Pim kinase inhibitors

Boris Letribot, Rufine Akué-Gédu, Niina M. Santio, Malika El-Ghozzi, Daniel Avignant, Federico Cisnetti, Päivi J. Koskinen, Arnaud Gautier, Fabrice Anizon, Pascale Moreau
Volume 50, April 2012, Pages 304–310

Solvent effect on copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC): Synthesis of novel triazolyl substituted quinolines as potential anticancer agents

Amarender Reddy Ellanki, Aminul Islam, Veera Swamy Rama, Ranga Prasad Pulipati, D. Rambabu, G. Rama Krishna, C. Malla Reddy, K. Mukkanti, G.R. Vanaja, Arunasree M. Kalle, K. Shiva Kumar, Manojit Pal
Volume 22, Issue 10, 15 May 2012, Pages 3455–3459

Practical procedure for copper(I)-catalyzed allylic boryl substitution with stoichiometric alkoxide base

Hajime Ito, Takanori Miya, Masaya Sawamura
Volume 68, Issue 17, 29 April 2012, Pages 3423–3427

A reusable enantioselective catalytic system for the Kharasch–Sosnovsky allylic oxidation of alkenes based on a ditopic azabis(oxazoline) ligand

Luis Aldea, Ignacio Delso, Markus Hager, Martin Glos, José I. García, José A. Mayoral, Oliver Reiser
Volume 68, Issue 17, 29 April 2012, Pages 3417–3422

Regioselective reductions of β,β-disubstituted enones catalyzed by nonracemically ligated copper hydride

Karl R. Voigtritter, Nicholas A. Isley, Ralph Moser, Donald H. Aue, Bruce H. Lipshutz
Volume 68, Issue 17, 29 April 2012, Pages 3410–3416

Copper bis(oxazolines) as catalysts for stereoselective aziridination of styrenes with N-tosyloxycarbamates

Hélène Lebel, Michaël Parmentier, Olivier Leogane, Karen Ross, Cédric Spitz
Volume 68, Issue 17, 29 April 2012, Pages 3396–3409

Mild hydrolytic cleavage of α-ferrocenylalkyl-O-methyl ethers

Sonia Pedotti, Angela Patti
Volume 68, Issue 16, 22 April 2012, Pages 3300–3305
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2012.02.074

Efficient Ru(II)-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of simple ketones with C2-symmetric planar chiral metallocenyl phosphinooxazoline ligands

Hui Guo, Delong Liu, Nicholas A. Butt, Yangang Liu, Wanbin Zhang
Volume 68, Issue 16, 22 April 2012, Pages 3295–3299

Enantioselective synthesis of optically active alkylphosphonates via Rh-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of β-substituted α,β-unsaturated phosphonates

Zheng-chao Duan, Lian-zhi Wang, Xin-jian Song, Xiang-ping Hu, Zhuo Zheng
Volume 23, Issues 6–7, 15 April 2012, Pages 508–514

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Efficient Copper(II)-Catalyzed Transamidation of Non-Activated Primary Carboxamides and Ureas with Amines


Dr. Min Zhang , Sebastian Imm, Sebastian Bähn, Lorenz Neubert, Dr. Helfried Neumann and Prof. Dr. Matthias Beller*
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 51, 3905–3909

Strong Electronic and Counterion Effects on Geminal Digold Formation and Reactivity as Revealed by Gold(I)–Aryl Model Complexes


Dieter Weber, T. David Jones, Laura L. Adduci and Prof. Dr. Michel R. Gagné*
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 51, 2452–2456
 

Enantioselective Synthesis of Tertiary and Quaternary Stereogenic Centers: Copper/Phosphoramidite-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation with Organolithium Reagents


Dr. Martín Fañanás-Mastral, Dr. Manuel Pérez, Pieter H. Bos, Dr. Alena Rudolph, Dr. Syuzanna R. Harutyunyan* and Prof. Dr. Ben L. Feringa*
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 51, 1922–1925

Rapid Access to Chroman-3-ones through Gold-Catalyzed Oxidation of Propargyl Aryl Ethers


Yanzhao Wang, Dr. Kegong Ji, Sylvester Lan and Prof. Dr. Liming Zhang*
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 51, 1915–1918
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201107561 

Highly Regioselective Copper-Catalyzed Benzylic C[BOND]H Amination by N-Fluorobenzenesulfonimide


Zhikun Ni, Prof. Dr. Qian Zhang,* Tao Xiong, Yiying Zheng, Yan Li, Hongwei Zhang, Prof. Dr. Jingping Zhang and Prof. Dr. Qun Liu*
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 51, 1244–1247

A Highly Efficient Gold-Catalyzed Oxidative C[BOND]C Coupling from C[BOND]H Bonds Using Air as Oxidant


Jin Xie, Huamin Li, Jiecong Zhou, Prof. Yixiang Cheng and Prof. Chengjian Zhu*
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 51, 1252–1255


Simple Gold-Catalyzed Synthesis of Benzofulvenes—gem-Diaurated Species as “Instant Dual-Activation” Precatalysts


Prof. Dr. A. Stephen K. Hashmi,* Dipl.-Chem. Ingo Braun, Dipl.-Chem. Pascal Nösel, Dipl.-Chem. Johannes Schädlich, M. Sc. Marcel Wieteck, Dr. Matthias Rudolph and Dr. Frank Rominger
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 51, 4456–4460