A Palladium-Catalyzed, Abnormal Hydrogenolytic Ring-Cleavage Reaction of Fused .BETA.-Lactams.

Palladium-Catalyzed, Enantioselective Heine Reaction

Aziridines are important synthetic intermediates for the generation of nitrogen-containing molecules. N-Acylaziridines undergo rearrangement by ring expansion to produce oxazolines, a process known as the Heine reaction. The first catalytic, enantioselective Heine reaction is reported for meso-N-acylaziridines where a palladium(II)-diphosphine complex is employed. The highly enantioenriched oxa...

Synthesis of Dibenzofurans via a Palladium Catalyzed Oxidative Ring Closure Reaction

Manganese-catalyzed aerobic dehydrogenative cyclization toward ring-fused indole skeletons.

We describe the first example of manganese(III)-catalyzed aerobic dehydrogenative cyclization producing ring-fused indole skeletons. This catalytic system converts from two C-H bonds of indole and malonate to a C-C bond and produces water as the sole side product. This operationally easy method was extended to an intermolecular cross-dehydrogenative coupling of indole and α-substituted malonate...

Enantioselective Construction of Quaternary N-Heterocycles by Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Allylic Alkylation of Lactams

The enantioselective synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles (N-heterocycles) represents a substantial chemical research effort and resonates across numerous disciplines, including the total synthesis of natural products and medicinal chemistry. In this Article, we describe the highly enantioselective palladium-catalysed decarboxylative allylic alkylation of readily available lactams to f...

Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of azides with isocyanides.

An efficient palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of azides with isocyanides is developed, providing a general synthetic route to unsymmetric carbodiimides with excellent yields. This method shows a broad substrate scope, including not only aryl azides, but also unactivated benzyl and alkyl azides. Furthermore, from readily available substrates, Pd-catalyzed coupling with a tandem amine ...