Publications by authors named "Lucrezia Angelini"

The synthesis of functionalized nitrogen heterocycles is integral to discovering, manufacturing and evolving high-value materials. The availability of effective strategies for heterocycle synthesis often biases the frequency of specific ring systems over others in the core structures of bioactive leads. For example, while the six- and five-membered piperidine and pyrrolidine are widespread in medicinal chemistry libraries, the seven-membered azepane is essentially absent and this leaves open a substantial area of three-dimensional chemical space.

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Vicinal diamines are ubiquitous materials in organic and medicinal chemistry. The direct coupling of olefins and amines would be an ideal approach to construct these motifs. However, alkene diamination remains a long-standing challenge in organic synthesis, especially when using two different amine components.

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Herein, we report a strategy for the generation of nitrogen-radicals by ground-state single electron transfer with organyl-Ni species. Depending on the philicity of the N-radical, two types of processes have been developed. In the case of nucleophilic aminyl radicals direct N-arylation with aryl organozinc, organoboron, and organosilicon reagents was achieved.

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A common problem encountered in enantioselective organocatalysis is the aggregation of the catalyst, which can result in a relevant decrease of the efficiency and selectivity of the process. In the asymmetric synthesis of chiral benzofuranones, recently reported by us, we noted a remarkable increase of the reaction yield upon the addition of one of the reagents in a portionwise manner rather than in a single addition. We investigated this phenomenon by several experimental techniques such as 1D and 2D NMR experiments, UV-Vis spectroscopy, circular dichroism and dynamic light scattering.

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