Publications by Chi Wai Cheung

Manganese-mediated reductive amidation of esters with nitroarenes

Xile Hu, Chi Wai Cheung, Peng Wang, Ning Shen

Amides are ubiquitous molecules in nature and in synthetic chemistry. Here we report a convenient and efficient method to synthesize N-aryl amides via amidation of esters with nitroarenes. In the presence of manganese metal, this amidation proceeded smooth ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Manganese-Mediated Reductive Transamidation of Tertiary Amides with Nitroarenes

Xile Hu, Chi Wai Cheung

Amides are an important class of organic compounds, which have widespread industrial applications. Transamidation of amides is a convenient method to generate new amides from existing ones. Tertiary amides, however, are challenging substrates for transamid ...

2018

Amide synthesis via nickel-catalysed reductive aminocarbonylation of aryl halides with nitroarenes

Xile Hu, Chi Wai Cheung, Marten Leendert Ploeger

Aminocarbonylation of aryl halides is one of the most useful methods in amide synthesis, but nitroarenes have not been used as a nitrogen source in this method even though they are more economical and accessible than anilines. Reported here is the developm ...

2018

Direct amidation of esters with nitroarenes

Xile Hu, Chi Wai Cheung, Marten Leendert Ploeger

Esters are one of the most common functional groups in natural and synthetic products, and the one-step conversion of the ester group into other functional groups is an attractive strategy in organic synthesis. Direct amidation of esters is particularly ap ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Transamidation of Secondary Amides with Nitroarenes

Xile Hu, Chi Wai Cheung, Marten Leendert Ploeger

Transmidation is an attractive method for amide synthesis. However, transamidation of secondary amides is challenging. Here, we describe a reductive transamidation method that employs readily available nitro(hetero)arenes as the nitrogen sources, zinc or m ...

American Chemical Society2017

Amine synthesis via iron-catalysed reductive coupling of nitroarenes with alkyl halides

Xile Hu, Chi Wai Cheung

(Hetero)Aryl amines, an important class of organic molecules in medicinal chemistry, are most commonly synthesized from anilines, which are in turn synthesized by hydrogenation of nitroarenes. Amine synthesis directly from nitroarenes is attractive due to ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Stereoselective Synthesis of Trisubstituted Alkenes through Sequential Iron-Catalyzed Reductive anti-Carbozincation of Terminal Alkynes and Base-Metal-Catalyzed Negishi CrossCoupling

Xile Hu, Chi Wai Cheung

The stereoselective synthesis of trisubstituted alkenes is challenging. Here, we show that an iron-catalyzed anti-selective carbozincation of terminal alkynes can be combined with a base-metal-catalyzed cross coupling to prepare trisubstituted alkenes in a ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Z-Selective Olefin Synthesis via Iron-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling of Alkyl Halides with Terminal Arylalkynes

Xile Hu, Chi Wai Cheung, Fedor Zhurkin

Selective catalytic synthesis of Z-olefins has been challenging. Here we describe a method to produce 1,2-disubstituted olefins in high Z selectivity via reductive cross-coupling of alkyl halides with terminal arylalkynes. The method employs inexpensive an ...

American Chemical Society2015

Cross-Coupling of Nonactivated Primary and Secondary Alkyl Halides with Aryl Grignard Reagents Catalyzed by Chiral Iron Pincer Complexes

Xile Hu, Chi Wai Cheung, Gerald Bauer

Iron(III) bisoxazolinylphenylamido (bopa) pincer complexes are efficient precatalysts for the cross-coupling of nonactivated primary and secondary alkyl halides with phenyl Grignard reagents. The reactions proceed at room temperature in moderate to excelle ...

Georg Thieme Verlag2015

Syntheses, structures and properties of cobalt and manganese complexes based on pyridine-2,3,5,6-tetracarboxylic acid

Chi Wai Cheung, Weijin Wang, Hong-Ling Gao

Two new complexes based on pyridine-2,3,5,6-tetracarboxylic acid(H(4)pdtc) as ligand, {[Co-2(pdtc)(H2O)(4)]center dot H2O}(n) (1) and {Mn-2(pdtc)(H2O)(4)}(n) (2), have been obtained by hydrothermal syntheses and characterized by IR, elemental analysis, X-r ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015