Richard Liu

In @NatureChemistry, we report reversible hydroxide emitters that generate highly basic (pH ~13) solns under light & revert to neutral in dark. The compounds, taking advantage of aromaticity effects, can directly capture/concentrate CO2 from ambient air. rdcu.be/eAB2S

Adding to the growing toolbox of aryl azide syntheses: From @Shangyu_Li on @ChemRxiv, Pd-catalyzed coupling of ArBr/ArOTf with NaN3. This reaction is trickier than it looks: as we show, [LPd-N3]2 dimers form with many L's & the pdt can inhibit Pd(0).

doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

Our group reports a Ni-catalyzed desulfurative ring contraction method in @J_A_C_S.

By performing double SNAr reactions and "deleting" the sulfur atom afterwards, many fun heterocycles can be synthesized in 2 steps from commercial materials. Congratulations, @chou15_johnson!

In Org. Lett. (@JOC_OL), Khash and Nathan report a simple, bench-stable, and recyclable organic reagent that quantitatively releases CO in solution upon blue-light irradiation. The method can be combined with carbonylative cross-coupling reactions.
doi.org/10.1021/acs.or…

The revised & formatted version now in @angew_chem! doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…

Nathan, Dana, Breno expanded the study to show 10 examples of ArSFs (incl 2 crystal structures) & highlight the reactivity of this FG with alkenes, alkynes, and carbenes (uncatalyzed!)

Happy New Year!