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Recent Advances in Transition Metal-Catalyzed Isocyanide Insertion Reactions

  • Qiushan Gao ,
  • Meng Li ,
  • Wanqing Wu
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  • a Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Engineering of Guangdong Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640
    b Yellow River Institute of Eco-environmental Science, Zhengzhou 450004
These authors contributed equally to this work
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Received date: 2022-04-13

  Revised date: 2022-06-10

  Online published: 2022-06-23

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National Natural Science Foundation of China(22071063)

Abstract

As a class of small organic molecules containing (NC) functional groups with high activity, isocyanide has been widely employed in organic synthesis, materials science, as well as coordination chemistry. In recent years, the transition metal-catalyzed isocyanide insertion reactions have attracted much attention due to the convenient and simple operations, the efficiency in the formation of diverse new bonds and good reaction selectivity. A series of highly useful chain or cyclic compounds have been successfully constructed using this strategy, such as functionalized ketones, amides, nitrogen heterocyclic compounds, etc. To study the most recent progress, the advances in transition metal-catalyzed isocyanide insertion reactions since 2017 to 2021 are briefly summarized according to different metal categories, and the future development has also been prospected in this review.

Cite this article

Qiushan Gao , Meng Li , Wanqing Wu . Recent Advances in Transition Metal-Catalyzed Isocyanide Insertion Reactions[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2022 , 42(9) : 2659 -2681 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc202204007

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