New Insights into Transition Metal Catalysts for Green Organic Synthesis

A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalysis in Organic and Polymer Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2024) | Viewed by 933

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College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Chaowang Road 18#, Hangzhou 310014, China
Interests: transition metal catalysis; organic synthesis; asymmetric synthesis of chiral polycyclic molecules

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Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
Interests: organic synthesis methodology; synthesis of bioactive compounds; metalloenzyme biomimics and metallic drugs

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Dear Colleagues,

Transition-metal-catalyzed reaction represents an important method towards the synthesis of structurally diverse organic compounds and has therefore attracted extensive attention from chemists in academic and industry. In particular, the development of green synthetic methodologies is of great significance due to the requirements of green chemistry. In this regard, numerous transformations involving radical chemistry, photocatalytic reactions, asymmetric catalysis, cycloisomerization, etc. have been achieved by employing effective transition-metal catalysts in a step- or atom-econonical manner over the past decades. Upon these progresses, the development of efficient and green transformations is still in high demand.

This Special Issue herein provides a platform for corresponding researchers to contribute their recent works concerning green organic synthesis and discuss the perspectives on challenges and future directions in this area.

Dr. Ren-Xiao Liang
Guest Editor

Dr. Hejiang Luo
Guest Editor Assistant

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Keywords

  • transition-metal catalysis
  • organic synthesis
  • asymmetric catalysis
  • mechanism investigation
  • synthesis of heterocyclic compounds
  • metalloenzyme biomimics and metallic drugs

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Iron/Rhodium Bimetallic Lewis Acid/Transition Metal Relay Catalysis for Alkynylation/Cyclotrimerization Sequential Reactions Toward Isoindolinone Derivatives from N,O-Cyclic Acetals
by Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, Ewies Fawzy Ewies, Mohamed El-Shazly, Brahim Ould Elemine, Abderrahmane Hadou, Ata Martin Lawson, Adam Daïch and Mohamed Othman
Catalysts 2025, 15(2), 151; https://doi.org/10.3390/catal15020151 - 6 Feb 2025
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A novel sequential one-pot bimetallic catalytic system combining Fe(III)-catalyzed alkynylation and a Rh(I)-catalyzed [2+2+2] reaction was successfully developed. The σ-Lewis acid properties of iron (III) and the π-Lewis acid properties of rhodium (I) catalysts were unified in an unprecedented intermolecular alkynylation/cyclotrimerization one-pot process. [...] Read more.
A novel sequential one-pot bimetallic catalytic system combining Fe(III)-catalyzed alkynylation and a Rh(I)-catalyzed [2+2+2] reaction was successfully developed. The σ-Lewis acid properties of iron (III) and the π-Lewis acid properties of rhodium (I) catalysts were unified in an unprecedented intermolecular alkynylation/cyclotrimerization one-pot process. Using this unique Fe/Rh bimetallic relay catalytic system, a variety of benzo and pyrridinoisoindolinone derivatives were obtained under mild conditions from easily available N-(propargyl) hydroxy aminals, as the simplest N-acyliminium ion precursors, and several alkynes. Full article
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