Excited to share our latest work on 4-to-5 skeletal editing towards halogenated pyrroles, and first 1st author paper for Rahma! Congrats 💪 https://t.co/4Lye3r5cir
Finally, RADICAL CROSS COUPLING without the exogenous REDOX. We disclose in @ChemRxiv (https://t.co/FYy6i1J7p9) a broadly general platform for achieving transformations that normally required excess metallic or chemical reducing agents or photochemical setups (and their requisite catalysts) or potentiostats for electrochemistry. Now, such transformations can be accomplished with the same ease that one conducts a Suzuki coupling. You can scale up (its homogeneous) or scale down (use cheap parallel screening plates). Moisture is tolerated and base metal catalysis is used. As the best engineers like to say, "The best part is no part". Now, chemists have the option to remove the redox part from radical couplings.
Quick Summary: Sulfonyl hydrazides are disclosed as versatile radical precursors as exemplified with seven new C–C bond forming, redox-neutral cross-couplings with: (1) activated olefins, (2) alkyl halides, (3) redox active esters, (4) aryl halides, (5) alkenyl halides, (6) alkynyl halides, and (7) a trifluoromethylating reagent to forge C(sp3)-C(sp3), C(sp3)-C(sp2), and C(sp3)-C(sp) bonds. Sulfonyl hydrazides are stable and usually crystalline substances that can be accessed in a variety of ways including transiently from hydrazones to achieve a net reductive arylation of carbonyl compounds. Exogenous redox (chemical, photo/electrochemical) additives are not necessary as these functional groups serve the dual role of radical precursor and electron donor. The operational simplicity (homogeneous, water tolerant, dump-and-stir) and practicality of the method are demonstrated as well as applications to streamlining synthesis and mild late-stage functionalization.
I/Zn exchanges have never been so easy. With our new reagent: 15min, rt.
Alkene vs. Aryl selectivity, broad scope, great functional group tolerance.
Functionalization of nucleotides, glycals, cyclobutenes, and much more.
Preprint online now:
https://t.co/slHoHc0MQD
Excited to share a story that started before the pandemic and was on standby during our moving: Zweifel olefination for C-glycosylation - an alternative route towards C-glucosides, -rhamnosides, -xylosides and -arabinosides. Congrats to Flo and Bilel (also his first paper!)
One man's trash🗑️=another man's treasure🪙Selectfluor: world's🌍favourite fluorinator(?), yet we throw away 95% its MW. Adding the same waste at the start promotes radical fluorinations to higher rates & yields (~3x) by a reactive heteroaggregate w/SF⛓️💡 https://t.co/IHEPsqL1yJ
.@didier_group report a one-pot synthesis of stereo-defined trisubstituted azetidines, cyclobutanes, and five-membered carbo- and heterocycles based on the polar radical crossover of borate derivatives.
https://t.co/7vd4dWYjUR
Excited to share our latest contribution to small-ring functionalization, this time using stereoselective radical-polar crossover processes. First contribution since we moved from Munich to Darmstadt. Congrats Flo and @RahmaGhazali2 for the team effort. https://t.co/RrEsEjR4M7
Hey peeps,
If you (or someone you know) is interested in doing a postdoc in the field of asymmetric bio-hybrid catalysis or asymmetric palladium catalysis, the 2024 #MSCA call is open. I’d be happy to host you @Chemistry_QMUL
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Delighted to join @tuBraunschweig@OCTUBS from today and looking forward to the exciting times ahead! This follows a fantastic 4.5 years @RWTH... I am incredibly grateful to @Schoenebeck_Lab for such strong support during this time.
"Ich gratuliere den Kollegen Alexander Friedrich und Andreas Dreizler sehr herzlich zur Auszeichnung mit zwei ERC Synergy Grants! Die beiden Projekte stehen beispielhaft für wesentliche Charakteristiken und Stärken der Forschung an unserer Universität: 1/3
We have an open postdoctoral position in our group in Bayreuth (https://t.co/jppBVpQ6D9). Experience in catalysis (Photo-, electro- or thermo-) is an advantage. Please send your application with a cover letter and a cv by 15 th of October.