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Enantioselective acyl-trifluoromethylation of olefins by bulky thiazolium carbene catalysis

Nicolai Cramer, Matthew Wodrich, Sripati Jana

Enantioenriched α-chiral β-fluorinated ketones are valuable structural motifs with application in several fields. The recently emerged concept of NHC-catalyzed radical acyl-trifluoromethylation of olefins offers a rapid route to construct racemic β-fluorin ...

2025

Catalytic Enantioselective Transformations Involving C-H Bond Cleavage by Transition-Metal Complexes

Nicolai Cramer, Christopher Gordon Newton, Shouguo Wang, Caio Costa Oliveira

The development of new methods for the direct functionalization of unactivated C-H bonds is ushering in a paradigm shift in the field of retrosynthetic analysis. In particular, the catalytic enantioselective functionalization of C-H bonds represents a high ...

2017

Nickel-catalyzed direct stereoselective α-allylation of ketones with non-conjugated dienes

Nicolai Cramer, Matthew Wodrich, Yixuan Cao

The development of efficient and sustainable methods for the construction of carbon-carbon bonds with the simultaneous stereoselective generation of vicinal stereogenic centers is a longstanding goal in organic chemistry. Low-valent nickel(0) complexes whi ...

Nature Research2023

Highly Enantioselective Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed Activation of Enantiotopic Cyclobutanone C-C Bonds

Nicolai Cramer, Laetitia Marie Mélanie Souillart

The selective functionalization of carbon-carbon sigma bonds is a synthetic strategy that offers uncommon retrosynthetic disconnections. Despite progress in CC activation and its great importance, the development of asymmetric reactions lags behind. Rhodiu ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2014

Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Enantiotopic C-HActivation Enables Access to P-Chiral Cyclic Phosphinamides

Nicolai Cramer, Yang Sun

Compounds with stereogenic phosphorus atoms are frequently used as ligands for transition-metal as well as organocatalysts. A direct catalytic enantioselective method for the synthesis of P-chiral compounds from easily accessible diaryl phosphinamides is p ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Enantioselective Access to Spirocyclic Sultams by Chiral Cp-x-Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Annulations

Nicolai Cramer, Van Manh Pham

Chiral spirocyclic sultams are a valuable compound class in organic and medicinal chemistry. A rapid entry to this structural motif involves a [3+2] annulation of an N-sulfonyl ketimine and an alkyne. Although the directing-group properties of the imino gr ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Enantioselective C-H Arylation Strategy for Functionalized Dibenzazepinones with Quaternary Stereocenters

Nicolai Cramer, Tanguy Jean Daniel Saget

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2013

Highly Enantioselective Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed Carbonyl Carboacylations Initiated by C-C Bond Activation

Nicolai Cramer, Laetitia Marie Mélanie Souillart

The lactone motif is ubiquitous in natural products and pharmaceuticals. The Tishchenko disproportionation of two aldehydes, a carbonyl hydroacylation, is an efficient and atom-economic access to lactones. However, these reaction types are limited to the t ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Neutral chiral cyclopentadienyl Ru(II)Cl catalysts enable enantioselective [2+2]-cycloadditions

Nicolai Cramer, David Kossler

Cyclopentadienyl ruthenium(II) complexes with a large number of available coordination sites are frequently used catalysts for a broad range of transformations. To be able to render these transformations enantioselective, we have designed a chiral neutral ...

2017

Enantioselective C-H Functionalization-Addition Sequence Delivers Densely Substituted 3-Azabicyclo[3.1.0]hexanes

Nicolai Cramer, Julia Pedroni

An enantioselective C-H functioffalization route to perfluoroalkyl-containing 3-azabicyclo[3.1.0]-hexanes is disclosed. A modular and bench-stable diazaphospholane ligand enables highly enantioselective Pd(0)-catalyzed cyclopropane C-H functionalization us ...

American Chemical Society2017

Toward in silico Catalyst Optimization

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Nicolai Cramer, Matthew Wodrich, Rubén Laplaza Solanas

In this minireview, we overview a computational pipeline developed within the framework of NCCR Catalysis that can be used to successfully reproduce the enantiomeric ratios of homogeneous catalytic reactions. At the core of this pipeline is the SCINE Molas ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2023

Synthesis of Fijiolide A via an Atropselective Paracyclophane Formation

Nicolai Cramer, Christoph Heinz

Fijiolide A is a secondary metabolite isolated from a marine-derived actinomycete and displays inhibitory activity against TNF-α-induced activation of NFκB, an important transcription factor and a potential target for the treatment of different cancers and ...

American Chemical Society2015

Chiral Cyclopentadienyl Cobalt(III) Complexes Enable Highly Enantioselective 3d-Metal-Catalyzed C-H Functionalizations

Nicolai Cramer, Yun-Suk Jang, Kristers Ozols

The synthesis of a set of cobalt(III)-complexes equipped with trisubstituted chiral cyclopentadienyl ligands is reported, and their steric and electronic parameters are mapped. The application potential of these complexes for asymmetric C-H functionalizati ...

2019

Enantioselective palladium(0)-catalyzed intramolecular cyclopropane functionalization: access to dihydroquinolones, dihydroisoquinolones and the BMS-791325 ring system

Nicolai Cramer, Tanguy Jean Daniel Saget, Julia Pedroni, Pavel Alexandrovich Donets

Taddol-based phosphoramidite ligands enable enantioselective palladium(0)-catalyzed C-H arylation of cyclopropanes. The cyclized products are obtained in high yields and enantioselectivities. The reported method provides efficient access to a broad range o ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Synthesis of Functionalized Spiroindolines via Palladium-Catalyzed Methine C-H Arylation

Nicolai Cramer, Tanguy Jean Daniel Saget

The synthesis of cyclopropyl spiroindolines is described using an intramolecular palladium(0)-catalyzed C-H functionalization of a methine C(sp(3))-H bond. This transformation can be coupled with intermolecular Suzuki couplings or direct arylations of hete ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Enantioselective C-H Arylation of Cyclopropanes: Efficient Access to Functionalized Tetrahydroquinolines

Nicolai Cramer, Tanguy Jean Daniel Saget

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2012

Converting disulfide bridges in native peptides to stable methylene thioacetals

Nicolai Cramer, Christopher Matthew Bandeli Kourra

Disulfide bridges play a crucial role in defining and rigidifying the three-dimensional structure of peptides. However, disulfides are inherently unstable in reducing environments. Consequently, the development of strategies aiming to circumvent these defi ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Chiral Cationic (CpRu)-Ru-x(II) Complexes for Enantioselective Yne-Enone Cyclizations

Nicolai Cramer, David Kossler

The cydopentadienyl (Cp) group is a ligand of great importance for many transition-metal complexes used in catalysis. Cationic CpRuII complexes with three free coordination sites are highly versatile catalysts for many atom-economic transformations. We rep ...

American Chemical Society2015

Chiral gamma-Lactams by Enantioselective Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Cyclopropane Functionalizations

Nicolai Cramer, Julia Pedroni

Cyclopropanes fused to pyrrolidines are important structural features found in a number of marketed drugs and development candidates. Typically, their synthesis involves the cyclopropanation of a dihydropyrrole precursor. Reported herein is a complementary ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2015

Nickel-Catalyzed Enantioselective Pyridone C-H Functionalizations Enabled by a Bulky N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand

Nicolai Cramer, Johannes Diesel

Annulated pyridones are an importantscaffold found in many biologically active compounds. ANi(0)-catalyzed C−H functionalization of 2- and 4-pyridones is disclosed, providing access to annulatedpyridones via enantioselective intramolecular olefin hydro-ary ...

2018