Highly atom economical molecular transformation via hetero-nickelacycle

Abstract

Nickel is one of the most popular first row transition metals for coupling reactions. For the past two decades, catalytic multi-component coupling reactions via nickelacycles have been developed. Although the formation of nickelacycles has been believed an important key step in the catalytic reactions, the generation of nickelacycles by oxidative cyclization has been less studied. Thus, we have been focusing on the formation of nickelacycles from nickel(0) species and development of catalytic reactions without using coupling reagents to construct highly atom economical nickel-catalyzed multicomponent connecting reactions.