Synthesis 2019; 51(10): 2100-2106
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1611756
short review
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Chromium-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings and Related Reactions

Jie Li*
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department Chemie und Biochemie, Butenandtstr. 5–13, Haus F, 81377 Munich, Germany   Email: jjackli@jiangnan.edu.cn   Email: paul.knochel@cup.uni-muenchen.de
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department Chemie und Biochemie, Butenandtstr. 5–13, Haus F, 81377 Munich, Germany   Email: jjackli@jiangnan.edu.cn   Email: paul.knochel@cup.uni-muenchen.de
› Author Affiliations
We thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21602083), and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20160160) for financial support.
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Publication History

Received: 18 January 2019

Accepted after revision: 25 February 2019

Publication Date:
21 March 2019 (online)


Abstract

Transition-metal-catalyzed cross-couplings have been recognized as a powerful tool for sustainable syntheses. Despite the fact that remarkable progress was achieved by palladium and nickel catalysis, the high price and toxicity still remained a drawback. Recently, naturally more abundant and less toxic low-valent chromium salts, such as Cr(II) and Cr(III) chlorides, displayed notable unique catalytic reactivity. Thus, recent progress in the field of chromium-catalyzed cross-couplings and related reactions are highlighted in the present short review until December­ 2018.

1 Introduction and Early Chromium-Mediated Reactions

2 Chromium-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings and Related Reactions

3 Conclusion