Synthesis 2017; 49(04): 790-801
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1588405
short review
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Recent Advances in Catalytic Transformations Involving Copper Acetylides

A. Francis Adeleke
Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK   Email: ccordier@imperial.ac.uk
,
Alexander P. N. Brown
Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK   Email: ccordier@imperial.ac.uk
,
Li-Jie Cheng
Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK   Email: ccordier@imperial.ac.uk
,
Kari A. M. Mosleh
Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK   Email: ccordier@imperial.ac.uk
,
Christopher J. Cordier*
Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, UK   Email: ccordier@imperial.ac.uk
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Publication History

Received: 01 December 2016

Accepted after revision: 10 January 2017

Publication Date:
24 January 2017 (online)


Abstract

This review will discuss recent advances in catalytic transformations involving copper acetylides. The content is organized according to the site of functionalization: cross-couplings and direct nucleo­philicity (C1-functionalization), formal cycloadditions (C2-functionalization), and propargylic substitutions (C3-functionalization).

1 Introduction

2 Cross-Couplings

3 Direct Nucleophilicity

4 Formal Cycloadditions

5 Propargylic Substitutions

6 Conclusions and Perspectives