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  • Amide reduction via hydroboration is challenging, and catalysts often exhibit limited substrate scope. Here the authors report synthesis of a lanthanum cluster as a catalyst for the hydroboration of esters and amides, capable of reducing a wide range of primary, secondary and tertiary amides to amines.

    • Sem Raj Tamang
    • Arpita Singh
    • Michael Findlater
    Research
    Nature Catalysis
    Volume: 3, P: 154-162

  • Aromatic hydrocarbons are among the most important building blocks in the chemical industry. Here, n-alkanes are catalytically converted to alkylaromatics, in yields up to 86%, using ‘pincer’-ligated iridium complexes and olefinic hydrogen acceptors. The carbon number of the n-alkanes is retained in the products, which are exclusively unbranched (n-alkyl-substituted).

    • Ritu Ahuja
    • Benudhar Punji
    • Alan S. Goldman
    Research
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 3, P: 167-171

  • The Kolbe electrolysis is a transformation renowned for forging C(sp3)–C(sp3) bonds. However, it is challenging to selectively make cross-products — that is, form new bonds from different partners — using this reaction. Now, a nickel-catalysed ‘reductive Kolbe’ reaction enables a decarboxylative cross-coupling approach.

    • Sheng Zhang
    • Michael Findlater
    News & Views
    Nature Synthesis
    Volume: 1, P: 417-419