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Tridentate Directing Groups Stabilize 6-Membered Palladacycles in Catalytic Alkene Hydrofunctionalization (2017)
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O’Duill, M. L., Matsuura, R., Wang, Y., Turnbull, J. L., Gurak, J. A., Gao, D., …Engle, K. M. (2017). Tridentate Directing Groups Stabilize 6-Membered Palladacycles in Catalytic Alkene Hydrofunctionalization. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(44), 15576-15579. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b08383

Removable tridentate directing groups inspired by pincer ligands have been designed to stabilize otherwise kinetically and thermodynamically disfavored 6-membered alkyl palladacycle intermediates. This family of directing groups enables regioselectiv... Read More about Tridentate Directing Groups Stabilize 6-Membered Palladacycles in Catalytic Alkene Hydrofunctionalization.

Structures of carboxylic acid reductase reveal domain dynamics underlying catalysis (2017)
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Gahloth, D., Dunstan, M. S., Quaglia, D., Klumbys, E., Lockhart-Cairns, M. P., Hill, A. M., …Leys, D. (2017). Structures of carboxylic acid reductase reveal domain dynamics underlying catalysis. Nature Chemical Biology, 13(9), 975-981. https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.2434

Carboxylic acid reductase (CAR) catalyzes the ATP- and NADPH-dependent reduction of carboxylic acids to the corresponding aldehydes. The enzyme is related to the nonribosomal peptide synthetases, consisting of an adenylation domain fused via a peptid... Read More about Structures of carboxylic acid reductase reveal domain dynamics underlying catalysis.

Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Directed anti-Hydrochlorination of Unactivated Alkynes with HCl (2017)
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Derosa, J., Cantu, A. L., Boulous, M. N., O’Duill, M. L., Turnbull, J. L., Liu, Z., …Engle, K. M. (2017). Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Directed anti-Hydrochlorination of Unactivated Alkynes with HCl. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(14), 5183-5193. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b00892

A regioselective anti-hydrochlorination of unactivated alkynes is reported. The reaction utilizes in situ generated HCl as the source of both the Cl - and H + and is catalyzed by palladium(II) acetate, with loadings as low as 25 ppm. Removable picoli... Read More about Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Directed anti-Hydrochlorination of Unactivated Alkynes with HCl.