Hello! This week we will be talking about N-N bond formation through dehydrogenative coupling. This work is from the Waldvogel group at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany. Link to paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.7b07488. If you’re interested in looking at a draft… Continue Reading
This week we will be discussing “Redox-neutral organocatalytic Mitsunobu reactions” from the Denton group at the University of Nottingham. Link for paper: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6456/910. Hope to see you there! We’ll be at Roma’s on Wednesday at 9:30am.
This week we will be reading, “Electrochemically Enabled Carbohydroxylation of Alkenes with H2O and Organotrifluoroborates” from the Xu group at Xiamen University in China. Link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b08592. Also suggested — checked out the first 7 pages of the SI… Continue Reading
This week Gabby will be talking about Möbius aromaticity and planar-to-topological chirality transfers! Check out the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b04074. This work is from the Le Gac and Ménand groups from Univ Rennes and Sorbonne Université respectively. Hope to see you… Continue Reading
This week we will be talking about photoene reactions with alkenes with Claire! The primary paper is from the Sivaguru group at Bowling Green State University. Main paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.8b08100. There is a correction to one of the structures from the… Continue Reading
Hi all! Here are the papers for our second lit discussion: Main paper: Catalytic Carbonyl-Olefin Metathesis of Aliphatic Ketones: Iron(III) Homo-Dimers as Lewis Acidic Superelectrophiles (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b11840) Supporting papers: 1. Mechanistic Investigations of the Iron(III)-Catalyzed Carbonyl-Olefin Metathesis Reaction (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b05641)… Continue Reading
Hi all! This first week we will be discussing metal-free borylation of heteroarenes. The main paper is from the Fontaine group at Université Laval in Québec (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b08143). Two supporting papers to check out if interested: Metal-free catalytic C-H bond… Continue Reading
Welcome to our website! We are excited to start holding lit discussions this summer. Read more about our vision for the meetings on the “Overview” tab. Each week, the selected paper and any supporting papers will be posted here at… Continue Reading