Direct hydroxylation of a wide scope of aryl halides was catalyzed by a combination of CuI and lithium pipecolinate in water with yields up to 92%.

Stereoselective conjugate additions of alcohols, amines, thiols, and halides to C(2)-alkynyl oxazoles and oxazolines provide a versatile entry to heterocyclic building blocks.

Facile synthesis of homoallylic alcohols is achieved from allyl halides and aldehydes or ketones over an all-oxide heterogenous media involving beta-SnO and catalytic Cu2O.

The recent years have witnessed the development of metal-catalyzed reductive carboxylation of organic (pseudo)halides with CO2 as C1 source, representing potential powerful alternatives to existing methodologies for preparing carboxylic acids, privileged motifs in a myriad of pharmaceuticals and molecules displaying significant biological properties. While originally visualized as exotic cross-...

New functionalized 7,9-dimethylpyrimido[4,5-d][1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]pyrimidine5,6,8(1H,7H,9H)-trione derivatives were synthesized via reaction of the hydrazonoyl halides with 7,8-dihydro-1,3-dimethyl-7-thioxopyrimido[4,5-d]pyrimidine-2,4,5(1H,3H,6H)trione. The biological activity of the products has been evaluated. The mechanism and the regioselectivity of the studied reactions have been discus...

Addition of allylmagnesium reagents to an aliphatic aldehyde bearing a radical clock gave only addition products and no evidence of ring-opened products that would suggest single-electron-transfer reactions. The analogous Barbier reaction also did not provide evidence for a single-electron-transfer mechanism in the addition step. Other Grignard reagents (methyl-, vinyl-, t-Bu-, and triphenylmet...

A novel series of 1,3,4-thiadiazoles, 5-arylazothiazoles and hexahydropyrimido-[4,5-d][1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]pyrimidines were synthesized via reaction of hydrazonoyl halides with each of alkyl carbothioates, carbothioamides and 7-thioxo-5,6,7,8-tetrahydropyrimido-[4,5-d]pyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-diones in the presence of triethylamine. The structures of the newly synthesized compounds were establish...

The highly selective palladium-catalyzed Negishi coupling of secondary alkylzinc reagents with heteroaryl halides is described. The development of a series of biarylphosphine ligands has led to the identification of an improved catalyst for the coupling of electron-deficient heterocyclic substrates. Preparation and characterization of oxidative addition complex (L)(Ar)PdBr provided insight into...