An efficient protocol for silver/copper-cocatalyzed direct sulfenylation and selenylation of arenes with aryl disulfides and diselenides has been developed. This strategy exhibits excellent functional group tolerance and high regioselectivity. Mono sulfenylation and selenylation products can be exclusively achieved. This reaction provides a simple and practical route to the preparation of aryl ...

Iron-catalyzed trifluoromethylation with concomitant 1,2-migration of an aryl group starting from diaryl allyl alcohol was achieved under mild conditions. This reaction system affords α-substituted-β-trifluoromethyl carbonyl compounds in high efficiency. In the case of substrates bearing different aryl groups, selective migration was observed.

With the aid of an azo directing group, Pd-catalyzed ortho-sp(2) C-H bond activation/functionalization of azoarenes with aryl acyl peroxides has been explored. This transformation provides easy access to regioselectively introducing acyloxyl and aryl groups into azoarenes by simply changing the reaction temperature and solvent.

Ir complexes of chiral phosphine-diamine ligands catalyse the hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation of aryl-piperidin-4-yl methanones, and ketones bearing both an aryl group and secondary alkyl substituent with up to 98% e.e., and with substrate to catalyst ratios of up to 4000.

A stereoselective synthesis of 1-substituted (E)-2-aryl-but-1-en-3-ynes, including tetrasubstituted alkenes, has been developed from aryl-substituted α-allenols by treatment with the AcCl-NaOH (aqueous) system. This transformation might be explained through the elimination of acetic acid, made up of a δ-hydrogen and the acetate group in the initially formed α-allenic acetate.

Three new hydridosilazido ligands, ?N(SiHMe2)Aryl (Aryl = Ph, 2,6-C6Me2H3 (dmp), 2,6-C6iPr2H3 (dipp)) and their rare-earth complexes Ln{N(SiHMe2)Aryl}3(THF)n (Ln Sc, Y, Lu; Aryl n 2; dmp, 1; dipp, 0) were synthesized to study the relationships among ligand steric properties, secondary Ln?H–Si bonding, reactivity of amide SiH groups. In these compounds, encumbrance aryl group was systematically ...

ABSTRACT Chiral acyclic and macrocyclic amines derived from trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane in complexes with diethylzinc efficiently catalyze asymmetric hydrosilylation of aryl-alkyl and aryl-aryl ketones with enantiomeric excess of the product up to 86 %. A trianglamine ligand with a cyclic structure or the presence of an additional coordinating group increases the enantioselectivity of the reac...

Several new 2-(2-(4-chlorophenyl)acetyl)-N-arylhydrazinecarbothioamides 1, 5-(4-chlorobenzyl)-4-aryl-4H-1,2,4triazole-3-thiols 2, 5-(4-chlorobenzyl)-N-aryl-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-amines 3 and 5-(4-chlorobenzyl)-N-aryl-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2amines 4 have been synthesized and screened for their antibacterial activity against gram +ve and gram –ve bacteria i.e S.aureus and E. coli. The QSAR studies of thes...

An efficient protocol was developed for the CuFe(2)O(4) nanopowder-catalyzed aryl-sulfur bond formation between aryl halide and thiol/disulfide. A variety of aryl sulfides were synthesized in impressive yields with good chemoselectivity and functional group tolerance in the presence of a catalytic amount of CuFe(2)O(4), Cs(2)CO(3) as base, in nitrogen atmosphere, under ligand-free conditions, i...

A ruthenium(II)-catalyzed protocol for the direct arylation of benzylic amines was developed. Employing 3-substituted pyridines as directing groups, arylation was achieved using aryl bromides or aryl iodides as the aryl source. Potassium pivalate proved to be an important additive in this transformation. The arylation took place selectively in the benzylic sp(3) position, and no significant com...