Radical-Mediated Functionalization of Alkenes
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalysis in Organic and Polymer Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 4718
Special Issue Editors
Interests: difunctionalization of alkenes; radical chemistry; electrochemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Functionalization of alkenes is an attractive strategy to rapidly install two functional group or build two bonds, thus offering an ideal step-economic construction for the generation of complex molecules. However, the vast majority of alkene functionalization approaches focus on the merger of the classical cross-couplings, which suffer from requiring expensive nucleophilic and electrophilic functional reagents, such as organometallic species and organohalides, for inserting the C-C double bonds in the presence of noble transition metals and/or ligands. Thus, functionalization of alkenes initiated by radical process is a particularly attractive approach, which allows to avoid the use of transition metals and complex precursors via C–H functionalization.
In this special issue, we welcome reports on radical-mediated functionalization of olefins from various fields, including metal-free conditions, metal catalysis, organocatalysis, photocatalysis, or electrocatalysis, among others. These reactions can also be carried out involving any radical precursor, including alkyl radicals, aryl radicals, nitrogen radicals, oxygen radicals, selenium radicals, sulfur radicals and alkene-derived radical cations, among others.
Prof. Dr. Renjie Song
Dr. Xuanhui Ouyang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- radical reaction
- functionalization of alkenes
- C-H functionalization
- photochemistry
- electrochemistry
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