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Recent advances in Rh(I)-catalyzed enantioselective C-H functionalization

Nicolai Cramer, Shouguo Wang, Yi Zhang, Zhen Chen

Chiral carbon-carbon (C-C) and carbon-heteroatom (C-X) bonds are pervasive and very essential in natural products, bioactive molecules, and functional materials, and their catalytic construction has emerged as one of the hottest research fields in syntheti ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

Asymmetric (CpRh)-Rh-x(III)-Catalyzed Acrylic Acid C-H Functionalization with Allenes Provides Chiral gamma-Lactones

Nicolai Cramer, Shouguo Wang

A chiral cyclopentadienyl (Cp-x) ligand featuring the semi-saturated H8-binaphthyl backbone as the chiral element was developed. Its application potential was demonstrated by (CpRhIII)-Rh-x-catalyzed C-H bond functionalization of acryl acids and allenes, e ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

DIII-D research towards establishing the scientific basis for future fusion reactors

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Stefan Müller, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Dongbin Zhao, Gang Yu, Huan Du, Alessandro Bortolon, Alessandro Marinoni, Jeffrey Huang, Sun Hee Kim, Jérôme Guterl, Zhixian Yan, Fang Liu, Terunobu Akiyama, Xin Yang, Wei Wu, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Federico David Halpern, Gabriele Merlo, Yu Fu, Shouguo Wang, Sung Chul Park, Xi Chen, Tzu-Hsien Shen, Bingying Zhao, Kyungjin Kim, Ji Hyun Kim, Yi Wang, Hui Wang, Zheng Wang

DIII-D research is addressing critical challenges in preparation for ITER and the next generation of fusion devices through focusing on plasma physics fundamentals that underpin key fusion goals, understanding the interaction of disparate core and boundary ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

An Enantioselective Cp x Rh(III)‐Catalyzed C−H Functionalization/Ring‐Opening Route to Chiral Cyclopentenylamines

Nicolai Cramer, Shouguo Wang

A chiral CpxRhIII catalyst system in situ generated from a CpxRhI(cod) precatalyst and bis(o‐toluoyl) peroxide as activating oxidant was developed for a C−H activation/ring‐opening sequence between aryl ketoxime ethers and 2,3‐diazabicyclo[2.2.1]hept‐5‐ene ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

Enantioselective Ruthenium(II)-Catalyzed Access to Benzonorcaradienes by Coupling of Oxabenzonorbornadienes and Alkynes

Nicolai Cramer, Sung Hwan Park, Shouguo Wang

Benzonorcaradienes and benzonorcarenes are attractive scaffolds that occur in natural products as well as biologically active compounds. However, there is a significant gap in the current synthetic toolbox as methods to access benzonorcaradiene enantiosele ...

2019

Asymmetric Alkenyl C−H Functionalization by Cp x Rh III forms 2 H ‐Pyrrol‐2‐ones through [4+1]‐Annulation of Acryl Amides and Allenes

Nicolai Cramer, Shouguo Wang, Yang Liu

An efficient CpxRhIII‐catalyzed enantioselective alkenyl C−H functionalization/[4+1] annulation of acryl amides and allenes is reported. The described transformation provides straightforward access to enantioenriched α,β‐unsaturated‐γ‐lactams bearing a qua ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

A Readily Accessible Class of Chiral Cp Ligands and their Application in Ru-II-Catalyzed Enantioselective Syntheses of Dihydrobenzoindoles

Nicolai Cramer, Sung Hwan Park, Shouguo Wang

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2018

Catalytic Enantioselective Transformations Involving C-H Bond Cleavage by Transition-Metal Complexes

Nicolai Cramer, Christopher Gordon Newton, Shouguo Wang, Caio Costa Oliveira

The development of new methods for the direct functionalization of unactivated C-H bonds is ushering in a paradigm shift in the field of retrosynthetic analysis. In particular, the catalytic enantioselective functionalization of C-H bonds represents a high ...

2017