Applications of Sadphos in Earth-Abundant Metal Catalysis

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Sadphos在丰产金属催化反应中的应用

张瑞楠^b, 郑琪智^d, 赖圣怡^e, 罗文俊^*,b, 许冰^*,a, 张展鸣^*,c, 张俊良^*,c

^a海军军医大学药学系上海 200433;
^b赣南师范大学化学与材料科学学院赣州 341000;
^c复旦大学化学系上海 200438;
^d华东理工大学药学院上海 200237;
^e东华大学化学与化工学院上海 201620

收稿日期:2026-04-28 修回日期:2026-05-25
基金资助:
国家自然科学基金(No. 22501294, 22308061)、上海市东方英才计划(No. QNKJ2025050)和江西省自然科学基金(No. 20243BCE51174, 20242BAB20110)资助项目.

Applications of Sadphos in Earth-Abundant Metal Catalysis

Zhang Ruinan^b, Zheng Qizhi^d, Lai Shengyi^e, Luo Wenjun^b,*, Xu Bing^a,*, Zhang Zhan-Ming^c,*, Zhang Junliang^c,*

^aSchool of Pharmacy, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, 200433;
^bCollege of Chemistry and Materials Science, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, 341000;
^cDepartment of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438;
^dSchool of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237;
^eCollege of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620

Received:2026-04-28 Revised:2026-05-25
Contact: ^*E-mail: wenjunluo@gnnu.edu.cn; xubing_0520@163.com; zhanmingzhang@fudan.edu.cn; junliangzhang@fudan.edu.cn
Supported by:
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22501294, 22308061), the Shanghai Oriental Talents Program (No. QNKJ2025050) and the Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. 20243BCE51174, 20242BAB20110).

Abundant metals (such as iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, and manganese) have prominent advantages including rich reserves, low cost, environmental friendliness, mild reaction conditions, and few by-products. Their asymmetric catalysis has become a core research direction to replace precious metals such as palladium, rhodium, and iridium. Developed by the Junliang Zhang research group in 2014 based on the design concepts of non-C₂ symmetry, rigidity combined with flexibility, and containing multiple coordinating atoms such as P, N, O, and S, Sadphos ligands are a new type of chiral phosphine ligands with chiral tert-butylsulfinamide as the core skeleton. They have been developed into multiple series including Ming-Phos, Wei-Phos,Xiang-Phos, Xu-Phos, PC-Phos, TY-Phos, W-Phos, WJ-Phos, etc, featuring diverse structures, easy modification, abundant coordination sites, and excellent stereoregulatory ability. In 2016, Sadphos ligands were first applied in asymmetric abundant metal catalytic reactions, opening a new chapter in the research on the combination of the two. This review systematically summarizes the research progress of Sadphos ligands in asymmetric reactions and polymerization reactions catalyzed by abundant metals (such as copper, nickel, and cobalt) over the past ten years from 2016 to 2026. Classified by the type of abundant metals, it focuses on summarizing their applications in various reactions including [3+2] cycloaddition, asymmetric addition, asymmetric cross-coupling, asymmetric borylation of 1,1-disubstituted allenes, reductive cyclization, dynamic kinetic reductive conjugate addition, axially chiral construction, enantioselective addition/vinylation of sulfinimines, and polymerization of allene monomers. It also discusses the matching between ligand structure and metal center as well as the stereoregulatory mechanism of catalysis, analyzes the challenges faced in current research, and looks forward to future development directions, providing references for further research, structural innovation, and industrial application in this field.

Key words: Asymmetric catalysis, Abundant metal catalysis, Sulfinamide phosphine ligand, Polymerization

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Zhang Ruinan, Zheng Qizhi, Lai Shengyi, Luo Wenjun, Xu Bing, Zhang Zhan-Ming, Zhang Junliang. Applications of Sadphos in Earth-Abundant Metal Catalysis[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, doi: 10.6023/cjoc202604047.

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