The enantioselective total synthesis of the telomerase inhibitor UCS1025A has been accomplished. The key transformation involves a remarkable boron Reformatsky coupling of iodolactone 13 and aldehyde… (More)
Cyclopropenimines are shown to be a highly effective new class of enantioselective Brønsted base catalysts. A chiral 2,3-bis(dialkylamino)cyclopropenimine catalyzes the rapid Michael reaction of a… (More)
The potential applications of cationic poly(ionic liquids) range from medicine to energy storage, and the development of efficient synthetic strategies to target innovative cationic building blocks… (More)
The first example of aromatic cation-activated nucleophilic acyl substitution has been achieved. The conversion of carboxylic acids to their corresponding acid chlorides occurs rapidly in the… (More)
An oxidative carbonylation reaction that generates acid chloride functionality has been developed. Furthermore, this aminochlorocarbonylation reaction has been merged with a catalytic Friedel-Crafts… (More)
Chiral acid catalysts are useful for the synthesis of enantioenriched small molecules, but the standard catalysts require laborious and expensive preparations. Here, we describe a chiral Brønsted… (More)
A new method for cyclopropanation involving intramolecular methylene transfer from an epoxide to an olefin has been developed. This La(OTf)(3)-catalyzed process proceeds with good efficiency and with… (More)
The development of a catalytic carbonyl-olefin metathesis strategy is reported, in the context of the ring-opening metathesis of cyclopropenes with aldehydes using a simple hydrazine catalyst. The… (More)
The facility with which a substituted cyclopentadienyl anion may function as a leaving group for palladium-catalyzed allylation reactions is demonstrated. Reaction of several allylcyclopentadienyl… (More)
A multicatalytic synthesis of complex tetrahydrofurans has been developed involving a Bi(OTf)(3)-catalyzed nucleophilic addition/hydroalkoxylation sequence. Complex tetrahydrofuranyl products may be… (More)