Abstract Photoredox catalysis has received great attention in both academia and industry remarkable progress been made over the past decade. Now, it shown that a visible-light-mediated oxidative C–C bond cleavage of geminal diazides can be induced by organic dye for synthesis oxamates. A mechanistic study, confirmed control experiments, indicates this proceeds through single-electron transfer (...

Cyclobutanols undergo an oxidative ring expansion with Co(acac)2 and triplet oxygen to give 1,2-dioxanols. The formation of alkoxy radical drives the regioselective cleavage on more substituted side before insertion molecular oxygen. reaction is particularly effective secondary cyclobutanols but works also certain tertiary alcohols. Further substitution neutral nucleophiles under catalytic Lewi...

A diastereoselective and enantioselective construction of 2,3-disubstituted 1,4-dicarbonyl compounds is reported. Nishiyama's RuPhebox complex (2.0 mol% catalyst loading) serves as a chiral Lewis acid in conjunction with BrCCl3 base for the oxidative homocoupling 2-acyl imidazoles via stereocontrolled reaction intermediate Ru enolates situ brominated imidazoles. Cleavage achiral imidazole auxil...