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Regioselective quinazoline C2 modifications through the azide–tetrazole tautomeric equilibrium

  • Dāgs Dāvis Līpiņš,
  • Andris Jeminejs,
  • Una Ušacka,
  • Anatoly Mishnev,
  • Māris Turks and
  • Irina Novosjolova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 675–683, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.61

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  • efficiencies [5][6][7]. Consequently, ongoing efforts focus on advancing methodologies for synthesizing established quinazoline-based drugs and acquiring novel modified quinazoline derivatives for pharmaceutical or materials science purposes. Aromatic nucleophilic substitution [8] or metal-catalyzed reactions
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Published 28 Mar 2024

Palladium-catalyzed three-component radical-polar crossover carboamination of 1,3-dienes or allenes with diazo esters and amines

  • Geng-Xin Liu,
  • Xiao-Ting Jie,
  • Ge-Jun Niu,
  • Li-Sheng Yang,
  • Xing-Lin Li,
  • Jian Luo and
  • Wen-Hao Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 661–671, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.59

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  • . Multicomponent reactions (MCRs) by virtue of high efficiency for the construction of complex chemicals, have shown the superiority in high step and atom economy in organic synthesis [25][26][27]. Over the past two decades, our group and others have developed a transition-metal-catalyzed MCR strategy involving
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Published 27 Mar 2024

HPW-Catalyzed environmentally benign approach to imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines

  • Luan A. Martinho and
  • Carlos Kleber Z. Andrade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 628–637, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.55

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  • (insomnia). Some recent synthetic approaches to imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine scaffolds include synthetic pathways of transition metal-catalyzed reactions [14], cyclization [15], condensation [16], heteroannular [17], and photocatalytic reactions [18]. These approaches usually involve non-trivial reaction
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Published 19 Mar 2024

Mechanisms for radical reactions initiating from N-hydroxyphthalimide esters

  • Carlos R. Azpilcueta-Nicolas and
  • Jean-Philip Lumb

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 346–378, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.35

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  • electronically excited substrate (*S) through an energy transfer (EnT) mechanism (path c). In addition to these mechanistic blueprints, the formation of charge-transfer complexes involving NHPI esters, as well as examples of photoinduced transition metal-catalyzed activation will be discussed. Depending on the
  • , the aminodecarboxylation reaction proved unsuccessful when employing alternative photocatalysts such as Ru(bpy)3Cl2 or eosin Y, underscoring the distinctive ability of q-OAc to activate TCNHPI esters via EDA complex formation. Photoinduced transition metal-catalyzed mechanisms The in situ formation of
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Published 21 Feb 2024

Nucleophilic functionalization of thianthrenium salts under basic conditions

  • Xinting Fan,
  • Duo Zhang,
  • Xiangchuan Xiu,
  • Bin Xu,
  • Yu Yuan,
  • Feng Chen and
  • Pan Gao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 257–263, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.26

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  • regioselectivity. Significant advancements in the synthesis of arylthianthrenium salts have prompted a growing interest in their utilization as versatile precursors for the conversion of C–H bonds in arenes into C–C/X bonds through transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling processes [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19
  • -metal-catalyzed cross-coupling [32][33] and aminofunctionalization [34] of alkenes were achieved, benefiting from the unique reactivity of organothianthrenium species that are generated through the reaction of alkenes and thianthrene sulfoxide (TT=O) or thianthrene (TT) (Scheme 1b). Alcohols are widely
  • generation of alkyl radicals [39]. After that, a series of methods for the modification of alkylthianthrenium salts have been developed, including the transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling with terminal alkynes [40], sulfonylation with DABCO·(SO2)2 [41][42][43], or alkylation of active alkenes [44][45
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Published 08 Feb 2024

Catalytic multi-step domino and one-pot reactions

  • Svetlana B. Tsogoeva

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 254–256, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.25

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  • advances in the field. A Review article by Pounder, Tam, and co-authors summarizes new transition-metal-catalyzed domino reactions of strained bicyclic alkenes, including both homo- and heterobicyclic alkenes highly useful for the construction of biologically significant compounds with multiple
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Published 08 Feb 2024

Chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation of 3,3-difluoro-3H-indoles

  • Yumei Wang,
  • Guangzhu Wang,
  • Yanping Zhu and
  • Kaiwu Dong

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 205–211, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.20

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  • great attention in organic synthesis. Various methods [9], including reductive hydrogenation [10][11], kinetic resolution [12][13][14], functionalization of indole [15], and de novo construction of chiral 2-substituted indolines, have been developed [16][17][18][19][20]. In recent years, the metal
  • -catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of indoles to synthesize chiral indolines has been widely studied (Scheme 1a) [21][22]. Representative examples include Ir- or Ru-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of 2,3,3-trisubstituted 3H-indole [23][24]. Generally, these methods employ precious metals and/or
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Published 01 Feb 2024

Metal-catalyzed coupling/carbonylative cyclizations for accessing dibenzodiazepinones: an expedient route to clozapine and other drugs

  • Amina Moutayakine and
  • Anthony J. Burke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 193–204, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.19

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  • was disclosed that DMF, the reaction solvent, could act as a potential carbon monoxide surrogate under certain circumstances, notably, in metal-catalyzed aminocarbonylation procedures [19][20]. Unfortunately, no DBDAP was obtained and we only observed the formation of intermediate 3a in 25% yield
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Published 31 Jan 2024

Visible-light-induced radical cascade cyclization: a catalyst-free synthetic approach to trifluoromethylated heterocycles

  • Chuan Yang,
  • Wei Shi,
  • Jian Tian,
  • Lin Guo,
  • Yating Zhao and
  • Wujiong Xia

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 118–124, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.12

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  • their biological activity and potential applications, continuous efforts have been dedicated to the synthesis of DHPI derivatives. Various synthetic strategies have been explored (Scheme 1), including transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions [8][9][10], annulation reaction of carbenoids [11
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Published 19 Jan 2024

Synthesis of N-acyl carbazoles, phenoxazines and acridines from cyclic diaryliodonium salts

  • Nils Clamor,
  • Mattis Damrath,
  • Thomas J. Kuczmera,
  • Daniel Duvinage and
  • Boris J. Nachtsheim

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 12–16, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.2

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  • , this new method creates two C–N bonds simultaneously based on a mono-halogenated starting material, thus allowing heterocycle formation with diminished halogen waste. Keywords: carbazoles; heteroaromatics; iodanes; metal-catalyzed; one-pot reaction; Introduction N-Acyl carbazoles are effective
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Published 04 Jan 2024

Biphenylene-containing polycyclic conjugated compounds

  • Cagatay Dengiz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1895–1911, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.141

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  • arene–oxanorbornadiene annulation reactions [40]. This study involved converting PAHs obtained through annulation and aromatization steps into curved PAH structures using metal-catalyzed cycloaddition reactions pioneered by Vollhart [41] and Kotora [42]. Unlike previous studies that reported
  • cycloadditions from bay regions of [N]phenylenes, metal-catalyzed cycloadditions with diphenylacetylene occurred exclusively in the non-bay region, which allowed for straightforward syntheses of curved structures. Moreover, the presence of methyl groups in the structure facilitated the controlled activation of
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Published 13 Dec 2023

Radical chemistry in polymer science: an overview and recent advances

  • Zixiao Wang,
  • Feichen Cui,
  • Yang Sui and
  • Jiajun Yan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1580–1603, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.116

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  • to produce conductive polymers (Scheme 9B) [76]. Nowadays, most conductive polymers are prepared via metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions [77]. However, radical polymerization is also an effective way to synthesize conductive polymers at a relatively low cost. Niemi et al. [78] used FeCl3 as
  • achieved via a radical mechanism (Scheme 17). In comparison to the Pt-catalyzed system, the radical-induced hydrosilylation has a lower cost, better tolerance to coordinating functionalities, and yields products without metal residues, but its efficiency is inferior to transition-metal catalyzed methods
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Published 18 Oct 2023

N-Sulfenylsuccinimide/phthalimide: an alternative sulfenylating reagent in organic transformations

  • Fatemeh Doraghi,
  • Seyedeh Pegah Aledavoud,
  • Mehdi Ghanbarlou,
  • Bagher Larijani and
  • Mohammad Mahdavi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1471–1502, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.106

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  • functional materials and indispensable synthetic intermediates in drug discovery [31][32][33]. Because of their value, constructing C–S bonds has attracted significant attention via metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions and metal-free C–S bond formation [34][35][36][37]. Direct sulfenylation of the C–H
  • and S–S bonds. A plausible mechanism for the metal-catalyzed acylation and acylthiolation is illustrated in Scheme 33. Firstly, oxidative addition of palladium to the C–S bond of NTSE 1’’’ afforded intermediate I. The transmetalation from boron to palladium led to intermediate III, followed by
  • thiophosphates, thiophosphinates and selenophosphates by reaction with the P(O)H moieties of H-phosphonates [105]. Conclusion To date, both metal-catalyzed and organocatalyzed C–S bond formations have been widely expanded. In particular, organocatalytic methodologies are effective for direct construction of
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Published 27 Sep 2023

Consecutive four-component synthesis of trisubstituted 3-iodoindoles by an alkynylation–cyclization–iodination–alkylation sequence

  • Nadia Ledermann,
  • Alae-Eddine Moubsit and
  • Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1379–1385, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.99

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  • [9][10][11] and their preparation is an evergreen in organic synthesis [12][13][14][15]. Although the classical Fischer indole synthesis provides a very reliable and broadly applicable access to indole derivatives [16][17][18], striving for new indole syntheses is ongoing. In particular, metal
  • -catalyzed processes for accessing indoles have become attractive alternatives over the past decades [19][20][21][22][23][24]. Besides Larock's indole synthesis employing alkyne anellation [25] and Cacchi's cyclization of ortho-alkynylanilines [20][22] catalytic syntheses of indoles from alkynes have become
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Published 14 Sep 2023

Non-noble metal-catalyzed cross-dehydrogenation coupling (CDC) involving ether α-C(sp3)–H to construct C–C bonds

  • Hui Yu and
  • Feng Xu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1259–1288, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.94

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  • drug and natural compounds containing functionalized ether α-C(sp3)–H bonds CDC reactions can be applied. This review mainly focuses on the CDC reactions of ether oxygen α-C(sp3)–H bonds via non-noble metal-catalysis (Scheme 1d). Review Non-noble metal-catalyzed CDC reactions involving ether α-C(sp3)–H
  • coordinated with metal catalysts to control the selectivity and improve the reactivity in metal-catalyzed or -mediated reactions. Therefore, controlling the regioselectivity of CDC reactions by directing groups is of great interest [95][96]. Li et al. reported a cobalt-catalyzed CDC between unactivated C(sp2
  • the substrate achieved the activation of the C(sp2)–H bond. Other non-noble metal-catalyzed reactions In 2013, Liu et al. reported that MnO2 could catalyze the CDC of the benzylic C(sp3)–H bond in benzyl ethers with α-carbonyl C(sp3)–H bonds in the presence of air at room temperature (Scheme 33) [98
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Published 06 Sep 2023

Exploring the role of halogen bonding in iodonium ylides: insights into unexpected reactivity and reaction control

  • Carlee A. Montgomery and
  • Graham K. Murphy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1171–1190, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.86

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  • -effect; Introduction Iodonium ylides are a subset of hypervalent iodine (HVI) reagents that were first reported in 1957 by Neiland [1]. These have since been investigated under a variety of thermal, photochemical, radical and transition metal-catalyzed conditions [2], and they have been successfully
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Published 07 Aug 2023

Photoredox catalysis harvesting multiple photon or electrochemical energies

  • Mattia Lepori,
  • Simon Schmid and
  • Joshua P. Barham

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1055–1145, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.81

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  • carboxylic acids with amines that typically generate stochiometric amounts of harmful byproducts released [80][81], while simultaneously operating under milder reaction conditions than those applied in transition metal-catalyzed carbonylative amidation protocols [82][83]. Following the same distinct, yet
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Published 28 Jul 2023

Asymmetric tandem conjugate addition and reaction with carbocations on acylimidazole Michael acceptors

  • Brigita Mudráková,
  • Renata Marcia de Figueiredo,
  • Jean-Marc Campagne and
  • Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 881–888, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.65

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  • obtained by other conjugate addition reactions. Keywords: acylimidazole; asymmetric catalysis; carbocation; conjugate addition; enolate; Introduction Asymmetric metal-catalyzed conjugate additions provide access to numerous chiral scaffolds. This type of C–C bond formation efficiently enables the
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Published 16 Jun 2023

Pyridine C(sp2)–H bond functionalization under transition-metal and rare earth metal catalysis

  • Haritha Sindhe,
  • Malladi Mounika Reddy,
  • Karthikeyan Rajkumar,
  • Akshay Kamble,
  • Amardeep Singh,
  • Anand Kumar and
  • Satyasheel Sharma

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 820–863, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.62

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  • of several methods for the synthesis of functionalized pyridines or their integration into an organic molecule, new methodologies for the direct functionalization of pyridine scaffolds have been developed during the past two decades. In addition, transition-metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization and
  • rare earth metal-catalyzed reactions have flourished over the past two decades in the development of functionalized organic molecules of concern. In this review, we discuss recent achievements in the transition-metal and rare earth metal-catalyzed C–H bond functionalization of pyridine and look into
  • the mechanisms involved. Keywords: C–H functionalization; heterocycles; pyridine; rare earth metal; transition-metal-catalyzed; Introduction Pyridine, one of the most important azaheterocyclic scaffolds, is found in a diverse range of bioactive natural products, pharmaceuticals, and functional
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Published 12 Jun 2023

Strategies in the synthesis of dibenzo[b,f]heteropines

  • David I. H. Maier,
  • Barend C. B. Bezuidenhoudt and
  • Charlene Marais

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 700–718, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.51

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  • towards dibenzo[b,f]azepines and other dibenzo[b,f]heteropines, and the functionalisation thereof. Modern metal-catalyzed methods to introduce the C–C bridge include the Heck reaction, the Sonogashira reaction, Suzuki coupling and ring-closing metathesis, whereas Buchwald–Hartwig type reactions and Ullman
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Published 22 May 2023

Enolates ambushed – asymmetric tandem conjugate addition and subsequent enolate trapping with conventional and less traditional electrophiles

  • Péter Kisszékelyi and
  • Radovan Šebesta

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 593–634, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.44

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  • was isolated as the main product (Scheme 52B). Thus far, the direct hydroarylation of such enone-dione substrates was unprecedented, presumably, due to the preferred metal-catalyzed aldol cyclization. Their protocol was further verified by a wide substrate scope. Additionally, the reaction showed high
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Published 04 May 2023

C3-Alkylation of furfural derivatives by continuous flow homogeneous catalysis

  • Grédy Kiala Kinkutu,
  • Catherine Louis,
  • Myriam Roy,
  • Juliette Blanchard and
  • Julie Oble

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 582–592, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.43

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  • furfural derivatives have been developed. In particular, their direct functionalization by transition-metal-catalyzed C–H activation processes [16][17][18] has become a major area of interest where only a few methods have been reported so far. Most examples concern functionalization at C5, which is the
  • synthesis has increased dramatically and has rapidly become a routine tool for classical synthesis [26][27][28][29]. In particular, many efforts have been devoted to the development of flow alternatives for transition-metal-catalyzed cross-couplings [30] and for some C–H functionalizations [31
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Published 03 May 2023

Access to cyclopropanes with geminal trifluoromethyl and difluoromethylphosphonate groups

  • Ita Hajdin,
  • Romana Pajkert,
  • Mira Keßler,
  • Jianlin Han,
  • Haibo Mei and
  • Gerd-Volker Röschenthaler

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 541–549, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.39

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  • ]. Therefore, as relevant building blocks, tremendous efforts have been made to develop reliable methods for their synthesis. Transition-metal-catalyzed cyclopropanation of alkenes with trifluoromethyldiazoalkanes is a commonly used synthetic strategy for the construction of trifluoromethylcyclopropanes
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Published 25 Apr 2023

Transition-metal-catalyzed domino reactions of strained bicyclic alkenes

  • Austin Pounder,
  • Eric Neufeld,
  • Peter Myler and
  • William Tam

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 487–540, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.38

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  • shed light on future directions for further development in this field. Keywords: bicyclic alkenes; cascade; catalysis; domino; transition-metal-catalyzed; Introduction A well-orchestrated sequence of events – cascade, also known as domino, tandem, and sequential reactions, constitutes a fascinating
  • final product 195a. In 2019, the Shao group reported the Rh/Zn-catalyzed domino ARO/cyclization of oxabenzonorbornadienes 30 with phosphorus ylides 201 (Scheme 35) [83]. Despite the difficulty of using phosphorus ylides as nucleophiles in metal-catalyzed reactions due to their ability to strongly bind
  • Austin Pounder Eric Neufeld Peter Myler William Tam Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada 10.3762/bjoc.19.38 Abstract This review presents a comprehensive overview of transition-metal
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Published 24 Apr 2023

Transition-metal-catalyzed C–H bond activation as a sustainable strategy for the synthesis of fluorinated molecules: an overview

  • Louis Monsigny,
  • Floriane Doche and
  • Tatiana Besset

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 448–473, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.35

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  • approaches, the transition-metal-catalyzed functionalization of various scaffolds with a panel of fluorinated groups (XRF, X = S, Se, O) offered straightforward access to high value-added compounds. This review will highlight the main advances made in the field with the transition-metal-catalyzed
  • retrosynthetic disconnections. In this context, a strong interest from the scientific community was shown towards the challenging synthesis of fluorinated molecules by transition-metal-catalyzed C–H bond activation [44][45][46][47][48][49][50], allowing the functionalization of complex molecules and even for
  • (e.g., SCF3, SeCF3, SCF2CO2Et, OCH2CF3) by transition-metal-catalyzed C–H bond activation (Scheme 1). The review will be organized in two main parts, dedicated to the construction of a C–SCF2R/SeCF3 and C–OCH2CF3 bond. This review does not aim to be exhaustive and key examples were carefully chosen to
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