Synlett 2020; 31(09): 838-844
DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1691738
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C–H Insertion Reactions of Donor/Donor Carbenes: Inception, Investigation, and Insights

Jared T. Shaw
Department of Chemistry, One Shields Ave, University of California, Davis, CA 95166, USA   Email: jtshaw@ucdavis.edu
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Funding for this work has come from Fundación Ramon Areces (postdoctoral fellowship for Dr. Marcos González-Lopéz), CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior; postdoctoral fellowship for Dr. Cristian Soldi), the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF; 53767-ND1), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH/NIGMS; R01 GM124234).
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Publication History

Received: 06 December 2019

Accepted after revision: 24 January 2020

Publication Date:
10 March 2020 (online)


Abstract

Insertion reactions of donor/donor carbenes have emerged from obscurity to become a versatile method for the synthesis of a variety of cyclic structures with excellent control of diastereo- and enantio­selectivity. This Account describes the origin of this project as part of a natural product synthesis and the ensuing decade of reaction development that has resulted in new asymmetric methods as well as intriguing tangential observations.