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  • The benzene unit is a common scaffold in natural products and appears in most best selling drugs. Here, the authors report the efficient synthesis of substituted benzenes through a carbene-catalyzed formal [3+3] reaction, which does not require a pre-existing aromatic ring.

    • Tingshun Zhu
    • Pengcheng Zheng
    • Yonggui Robin Chi
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 5, P: 1-6

  • The use of heteroatom-centered anions as super-electron-donors (SEDs) for direct single-electron-transfer reactions has rarely been studied. Here, the authors show that heteroatom anions can be applied as SEDs to initiate radical reactions for synthesis of 3-substituted benzofurans, which have applications in both organic synthesis and pesticide development.

    • Shichun Jiang
    • Wei Wang
    • Yonggui Robin Chi
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-12

  • The search for efficient methods for the enantioselective synthesis of cyano-containing molecules is important but synthesis methods are often limited by the need of toxic cyano salts or reduction with hydrogen gas. Here the authors report the efficient and selective access to β-cyano carboxylic esters which can be easily converted into γ-aminobutyric acid derivatives with high optical purities.

    • Qingyun Wang
    • Shuquan Wu
    • Yonggui Robin Chi
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-10

  • The combination of carbene- and photocatalysis has enabled unorthodox routes to ketone syntheses, but usually requires engineered or activated substrates. Herein the authors present a carbene- and photocatalytic decarboxylative radical coupling of carboxylic acids and acyl imidazoles, in which the carboxylic acids are directly used as radical precursors.

    • Shi-Chao Ren
    • Xing Yang
    • Yonggui Robin Chi
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 13, P: 1-10