Guangbin Dong

Catalytic Redox-Neutral Decarboxylative Aromatization via Transfer Dehydrogenation

Abstract Arenes are fundamental structural motifs in organic molecules; therefore, methods for introducing aromatic rings are of broad importance. Traditional approaches that install arenes early followed by postfunctionalization sometimes struggle to achieve diverse substitution...

From α,β-Unsaturated Amide to Enamide: Intramolecular Alkene Translocation via Iridium-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation

Abstract Site-selective alkene translocation between two separate segments of a molecule has been a rare and mechanistically intriguing transformation. Herein we report the direct conversion of electrophilic α,β-unsaturated amides to nucleophilic enamides via an Ir-catalyzed alke...