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Quick assembly of 1-alkylidenyl-tetrahydroisoquinolines via a Catellani reaction/NBS-mediated cyclization sequence and synthetic applications
We herein disclose a modular synthesis of 1-bromomethylene-THIQs involving a Catellani reaction of aryl iodides, aziridines, and terminal alkynes followed by an N-bromosuccinimide (NBS)-mediated cyclization. This...
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Chemoenzymatic synthesis of C14-functionalized steroids
C14-functionalized steroids display biological activity and have been used as medicines. The lack of synthetic methods to access C14-functionalized steroids has, however, impeded steroidal drug discovery. In t...
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Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation
Planar chiral ferrocenes are widely studied structures in asymmetric catalysis, materials science and medicinal chemistry. Although synthetic methods for 1,2-disubstituted planar chiral ferrocenes are well kno...
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Open AccessDiversity-oriented functionalization of 2-pyridones and uracils
Heterocycles 2-pyridone and uracil are privileged pharmacophores. Diversity-oriented synthesis of their derivatives is in urgent need in medicinal chemistry. Herein, we report a palladium/norbornene cooperativ...
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Construction of axial chirality via palladium/chiral norbornene cooperative catalysis
Axially chiral biaryls are common structural motifs in functional materials, bioactive natural products, pharmaceuticals and chiral catalysts/ligands. As such, efficient preparation of these privileged scaffol...
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Precise Functionalization of Remote C-H Bonds
Remote C-H bond functionalization of arenes with precise control is a recognized extraordinary challenge in organic synthesis. Recently, Yu and Houk et al. developed an elegant strategy to distinguish and functio...
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Open AccessA biocatalytic hydroxylation-enabled unified approach to C19-hydroxylated steroids
Steroidal C19-hydroxylation is pivotal to the synthesis of naturally occurring bioactive C19-OH steroids and 19-norsteroidal pharmaceuticals. However, realizing this transformation is proved to be challenging ...
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Leader-Following Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems via Adaptive Event-Based Control
In this paper, the adaptive event-based control approach is applied to study leader-following consensus of multi-agent systems with linear dynamic models. Adaptive event-based controller and triggering functio...
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Fully distributed consensus of second-order multi-agent systems using adaptive event-based control
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Adaptive Event-Based Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems with General Linear Dynamics
In this paper, adaptive event-based consensus of multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics is considered. A novel adaptive event-based controller and a state-dependent triggering function are proposed f...
