A 3'-deoxy-3'-C-methylenephosphonate modified diribonucleotide is highly resistant to degradation by spleen phosphodiesterase and not cleaved at all by snake venom phosphodiesterase. The most remarkable finding is that, despite the fact that both the vicinal 2-hydroxy nucleophile and the 5'-oxyanion leaving group are intact, the 3'-methylenephosponate RNA modification is also highly resistant t...

Facile and efficient Rh(I)-catalyzed domino conjugate addition-cyclization reactions of olefins bearing two electrophilic sites and a pendant nucleophile with organoboroxines have been developed to afford a variety of N- and O-heterocycles, such as 3,4-dihydroquinolin-2(1H)-ones, 3,4-dihydrocoumarins, and pyrrolidin-2-ones, which constitute important motifs in biologically active natural and sy...

A variety of heterocyclic alcohols and acetates were coupled with silyl ketene acetals and other π-nucleophiles in the presence of trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate to provide an array of substituted β-heteroaryl propionates, including those with contiguous quaternary centers, as well as vinylogs thereof. This reaction also proceeds with high diastereoselectivity when the π-nucleophile b...

A dually activated ketene enolate, generated from an acid chloride, the unusual chelating nucleophile (1,8-naphthyridine), and a Lewis acid, reacts to afford a host of α,α-difluorinated products in the presence of a benchtop-stable fluorinating agent (Selectfluor). The use of this method to synthesize otherwise difficult to make products is highlighted along with computational and spectroscopic...

The 1,4-addition of a monofluoromethyl nucleophile to a variety of alpha,beta-unsaturated compounds has been achieved under mild conditions using either phosphines or potassium carbonate at room temperature. alpha-Substituted fluoro(phenylsulfonyl)methane easily undergoes Michael addition to alpha,beta-unsaturated ketones, esters, nitriles, sulfones, as well as propynoates at room temperature t...

A recently introduced empirical nucleophilicity index for a series of nand p-nucleophiles was evaluated. The index is based on the frontier molecular orbital information of the nucleophile and its electrophilic partner. The model is validated against kinetic data of alkenes, phosphanes, phosphites and amines interacting with the corresponding electrophilic partner. The predictive character of t...

Sulfur and iron co-doped titanoniobate nanosheets were prepared and evaluated in alcoholysis of styrene epoxide. The resultant co-doped catalyst exhibited excellent catalytic performance (yield of 99% with methanol as the nucleophile in only 1 h at room temperature) and may act as a promising candidate in many acid-catalyzed reactions.

This communication describes an unprecedented substitution cascade, in which 4-methylpyridine, following deprotonation with LDA, twice acts as a carbon nucleophile unusual SNAr process, to form novel triarylmethane structure. A proposed mechanism for this sequence is presented that supported by single crystal X-ray analysis of the resulting product. We believe unique transformation note it high...