Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hydrogenation and dehydrogenation are two important artificial methods to change the redox state of compounds. However, most of the current research focuses on mono redox transformation, and the corresponding regulation of redox divergent couplings with artificial catalysts still remains challenging.
Recently, a team led by Prof. CHEN Qing’an from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed a strategy to realize Pd-catalyzed redox divergent coupling of ketones with terpenols to access α-substituted ketones with varying degrees of unsaturation.
Their study was published in ACS Catalysis on May 27.
Pd-catalyzed redox divergent coupling of ketones with terpenols (Image by ZHAO Chaoyang)