Over the past two decades,homogeneous gold catalysis has experienced exponential development and contributed a plethora of highly valuable synthetic methods to the synthetic toolbox.Metal–ligand cooperative catalysis...Over the past two decades,homogeneous gold catalysis has experienced exponential development and contributed a plethora of highly valuable synthetic methods to the synthetic toolbox.Metal–ligand cooperative catalysis is a versatile strategy for achieving highly efficient and/or novel catalysis but has seldom been explored in gold chemistry.This minireview summarizes the progress we have made in developing remotely functionalized biaryl-2-ylphosphine ligands and employing them in cooperative gold catalysis that achieves excellent catalytic efficiency or realizes previously unknown reactivities.This approach also provides new venues for implementing asymmetric gold catalysis.展开更多
Here,we describe a general and modular strategy for the rapid assembly of benzo[c]phenanthridine(BCP)derivatives using homogeneous gold catalysis.Notably,in contrast to traditional methods based on the specially prefo...Here,we describe a general and modular strategy for the rapid assembly of benzo[c]phenanthridine(BCP)derivatives using homogeneous gold catalysis.Notably,in contrast to traditional methods based on the specially preformed substrates that have an inherent preference for the formation of this class of compounds with limited flexibility,this protocol is achieved via a selectively intramolecular cascade of a diazo-tethered alkyne and subsequently an intermolecular cyclization with a nitrile to facilitate the successive C–N and C–C bonds formation.This methodology uses readily available nitriles as the nitrogen source to deliver the products in good yield with excellent functional group compatibility.A preliminary anti-tumor activity study of these generated products exhibits high anticancer potency against five tumor cell lines,including He La,Mel624,SW-480,8505C,LAN-1.Besides,we report a catalyst-controlled intermolecular cycloaddition/intramolecular insertion of the substrate with a fulvene to provide fused polycarbocycles containing a seven-membered ring.展开更多
基金supported by the National Science Foundation,Division of Chemistry(NSF CHE 1800525).
文摘Over the past two decades,homogeneous gold catalysis has experienced exponential development and contributed a plethora of highly valuable synthetic methods to the synthetic toolbox.Metal–ligand cooperative catalysis is a versatile strategy for achieving highly efficient and/or novel catalysis but has seldom been explored in gold chemistry.This minireview summarizes the progress we have made in developing remotely functionalized biaryl-2-ylphosphine ligands and employing them in cooperative gold catalysis that achieves excellent catalytic efficiency or realizes previously unknown reactivities.This approach also provides new venues for implementing asymmetric gold catalysis.
文摘Here,we describe a general and modular strategy for the rapid assembly of benzo[c]phenanthridine(BCP)derivatives using homogeneous gold catalysis.Notably,in contrast to traditional methods based on the specially preformed substrates that have an inherent preference for the formation of this class of compounds with limited flexibility,this protocol is achieved via a selectively intramolecular cascade of a diazo-tethered alkyne and subsequently an intermolecular cyclization with a nitrile to facilitate the successive C–N and C–C bonds formation.This methodology uses readily available nitriles as the nitrogen source to deliver the products in good yield with excellent functional group compatibility.A preliminary anti-tumor activity study of these generated products exhibits high anticancer potency against five tumor cell lines,including He La,Mel624,SW-480,8505C,LAN-1.Besides,we report a catalyst-controlled intermolecular cycloaddition/intramolecular insertion of the substrate with a fulvene to provide fused polycarbocycles containing a seven-membered ring.
