Homogeneous Gold Catalysis in Organic Synthesis

Leveraging the Reactivity of Thioesters and Activated Hydrazones in the Development of New Synthetic Methods: Applications to Natural Product Synthesis

Abstract: Enolate based carbon-carbon bond-formation is fundamental to synthetic organic chemistry and has provided the foundation for advancement to its present state. Despite this long and highly prolific history, important methodological advances involving enolates and their analogues continue to flourish.

Transition Metal Catalyzed Fluorination

Ring Fragmentations and Intramolecular Cycloadditions: Efficient Approaches to Nitrogen Heterocycles

Transition Metal-Catalyzed Synthesis of N-Heterocycles from AzidesRelationship between Mechanism and Metal

Transition Metal-Catalyzed Synthesis of N-Heterocycles from Azides Relationship between Mechanism and Metal Tom G. Driver University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Chemistry, 845 W. Taylor St. Chicago, IL, 60607 As part of a program aimed at the discovery of new metal-mediated reactions, we discovered that aromatic N-heterocycles can be synthesized from vinyl- or aryl azides using transition metal catalysts to mediate a CH bond functionalization.