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Excited to share that our one-carbon alkene homologation has been published in @nature.com. 🎉 Marcus developed a simple reagent that enables the homologation of alkenes by a one-pot cross metathesis-fragmentation-retro-ene cascade giving easy access to the homologated alkene. (1/3) 🧵
Scheme showcasing and explaining the novel one-carbon alkene homologation. An (allyl)siloxymethylsulfone reagent is attached to the alkene via cross metathesis, deprotected via acid-mediated fragmentation to the sulfinic acid, and undergoes the retro-ene to deliver the homologated alkene. This reaction works across a broad scope of simple and complex alkenes, including monosubstituted, 1,1-disubstituted and 1,2-disubstituted internal alkenes.
May 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Happy to see our Carbonyl Azinylative Amination highlighted in @acs.org OPR&Ds new items of interest. Alex, Roopender and Rachel's work uses in situ generated heteroarylindium species to form diverse heteroarylaklyamines from three readily available starting materials.

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January 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Check out our new work in 3° alkylamine directed #Pd catalysed C-H activation in #ACSCatalysis. Jesus shows how an amino acid ligand favours one CMD pathways to preferentially give γ-C(sp3)-H actiavtion over β-H elimination enabling us to make some strained 4° centres.

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A graphic showing a central chemical structure of a palladium-coordinated central N-alkyl piperidine which then undergoes either productive γ-C-H cleavage or decomposition via β-H elimination. DFT structures highlight how an N-Ac amino acid ligand favours the productive γ-C-H cleavage due to geometic restriction around the Pd-centre. Find this work at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.4c06160
December 16, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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We are thrilled to see our recent work on carbonyl acylative amination be highlighted in #OPRD. Congrats once more to our colleague Dr. Jianzhong Liu, who is starting his own lab at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

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December 11, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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Congratulations on Dr. Joe Phelps for passing his viva 🎉🎉!!
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A celebration in the Gaunt Group's lab kitchen including Matthew Gaunt and the newly graduated Dr. Joe Phelps.
November 26, 2024 at 10:37 AM