Publications associées à Liaison carbone-hydrogène

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

Nicolai Cramer, Yi Zhang, Shouguo Wang, 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

Chalcogen bonding catalysis

Jieping Zhu

Catalysts play a major role in chemical synthesis, and catalysis is considered to be a green and economic process. Catalysis is dominated by covalent interactions between the catalyst and substrate. The design of non-covalent catalysts came into limelight ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

Migrative Carbofluorination of Saturated Amides Enabled by Pd-Based Dyotropic Rearrangement

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Hua Wu, Simone Gallarati, Guoqiang Yang

Directly editing an all-carbon quaternary carbon itself of nonstrained acyclic molecules remains underexploited despite the recent advances in the fields of both C–H and C–C bond activation. Herein, we report a palladium-catalyzed migrative carbofluorinati ...

ACS2022

Mechanistic Insight into Supramolecular Polymerization in Water Tunable by Molecular Geometry

Lukas Pfeifer

Supramolecular self-assembly in water based on non-covalent bonding is attracting major attention due to the potential of hydrogels and aqueous polymers in biomedical applications. Although supramolecular polymerization in organic solvents is well establis ...

CHINESE CHEMICAL SOC2022

Revisiting Cation Complexation and Hydrogen Bonding of Single-Chain Polyguluronate Alginate

Modifying the properties of bio-based materials has garnered increasing interest in recent years. In related applications, the ability of alginates to complex with metal ions has been shown to be effective in liquid-to-gel transitions, useful in the develo ...

American Chemical Society2021

Synthesis of Chiral Cyclopentadienyl Complexes and Applications Towards C-H Functionalization

Benoît Daniel Bertrand Audic

Metal-catalysed C-H bond functionalization has received tremendous attention and developed rapidly over the past decades. Cyclopentadienyl (Cp) metal complexes and their asymmetric counterparts (CpX) are part of a central organometallic category empowering ...

EPFL2021

Developing the Catalytic Applications of 1,3,2-Diazaphospholenes

John Henry Reed

The development of new catalytic methods for organic synthesis is a critical endeavour in order to obviate the economic and ecological drawbacks of stoichiometric organic synthesis. While catalysis can offer significant advantages in terms of atom-economy, ...

EPFL2021

Surface modified microfibrillated cellulose‐poly(vinylidene fluoride) composites: β‐phase formation, viscoelastic and dielectric performance

Véronique Michaud, Yves Leterrier, Dragan Damjanovic, Mohammed Arif Poothanari

The effect of silylation of microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) surfaces on β‐phase formation in poly(vinylidene difluoride) (PVDF) and the resulting viscoelastic and dielectric performance of MFC‐PVDF composites is investigated. Two different organosilanes, ...

2021

C-C bond activation enabled by dyotropic rearrangement of Pd(iv) species

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Hua Wu, Jian Cao

The weak carbon-metal bond combined with the kinetic inertness of the carbon-carbon bond renders metal-catalysed C-C bond activation to be highly challenging. Most of the reported C-C bond activation methodologies involve strain-releasing cleavage of small ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Investigating Tetrel-Based Neutral Frustrated Lewis Pairs for Hydrogen Activation

Shubhajit Das

Tetrel Lewis acids are a prospective alternative to commonly employed neutral boranes in frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) chemistry. While cationic tetrylium Lewis acids, being isolobal and iso(valence)electronic, are a natural replacement to boranes, neutral t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Charge transfer across C-H center dot center dot center dot O hydrogen bonds stabilizes oil droplets in water

Sylvie Roke, Saranya Pullanchery Sankara Narayanan, Sergey Kulik, Benjamin Rehl

The hydrophobic-water interface plays a key role in biological interactions. However, both the hydrophobic-water interfacial molecular structure and the origin of the negative zeta potential of hydrophobic droplets in water are heavily contested. We report ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2021

Using collective knowledge to assign oxidation states of metal cations in metal-organic frameworks

Berend Smit, Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Daniele Ongari, Kevin Maik Jablonka

Knowledge of the oxidation state of metal centres in compounds and materials helps in the understanding of their chemical bonding and properties. Chemists have developed theories to predict oxidation states based on electron-counting rules, but these can f ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Palladium-Catalyzed Multicomponent Synthesis of Fully Substituted Alkylidene Furanones

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Ruben Omar Torres Ochoa, Angel Renteria Gomez

In the presence of a catalytic amount of Pd(OAc)(2) and XantPhos, the three-component reaction of ynones, imines, and aryl iodides affords fully substituted alkylidene-furan-3(2H)-ones via a sequence of the Mannich reaction followed by chemo- and regiosele ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Palladium Catalysed Intramolecular Carbo-oxygenation of Propargylic Amines to Access 1,2-Amino Alcohols and alpha-Amino Ketones via in situ Tether Formation

Phillip Gulliver Dominic Greenwood

a-Amino ketones and 1,2-amino alcohols are important structural motifs in organic chemistry, that can be observed in natural products, pharmaceutically and bioactive compounds. For these reasons, they constitute privileged targets for the development of ne ...

EPFL2020

Catalytic Enantioselective Functionalizations of C-H Bonds by Chiral Iridium Complexes

Nicolai Cramer, Jin Fay Tan, Qui-Hien Nguyen, Adrien Jules Louis Madron Du Vigné

The development of catalytic enantioselective transformations, enabling the construction of complex molecular scaffolds from simple precursors, has been a long-standing challenge in organic synthesis. Recent achievements in transition-metal catalyzed enant ...

2020

Mechanisms of the Heterogeneously Catalyzed Reaction of CO2 Hydrogenation on Transition Metal Surfaces

Kun Zhao

Renewable energy supply and energy storage in a closed materials cycle are the urgent global challenges of the 21st century. Carbon dioxide (CO2) hydrogenation over catalysts is a method to produce synthetic fuels from renewable energy in a CO2 neutral cyc ...

EPFL2020

Hydrogen-Bonded Small Molecules and Polymers in Organic Electronics

Bilal Özen

Organic semiconductors are important components for applications in different fields of technology, as their advantages include the possibility of low-temperature processing as well as low-cost, large-area manufacturing based on solution-based processes, c ...

EPFL2020

C-H Bond Activation by an Isolated Dinuclear U(III)/U(IV) Nitride

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Ivica Zivkovic

Synthetic studies of bimetallic uranium nitride complexes with the N(SiMe3)(2) ligand have generated a new nitride complex of U(III), which is highly reactive toward C-H bonds and H-2. Treatment of the previously reported U(IV)/U(IV) nitride complex [Na(DM ...

2020

Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids as Coupling Partners in Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Reactions

Runze Mao

Carboxylic acids are one of the most suitable starting materials for synthesis. They are readily available and therefore inexpensive, stable and non-toxic. Many carboxylic acids can be obtained directly from natural resources, thus avoiding the extraction ...

EPFL2020

Iron-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling of Alkyl Iodides with Alkynes To Yield cis-Olefins: Mechanistic Insights from Computation

Xile Hu

In a recent study, a new procedure for Z-selective olefin synthesis by reductive coupling of alkyl iodides with terminal alkynes in the presence of iron salts is described. This transformation is representative of many newly developed synthetic routes thro ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020