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Recent Advances in the Catalytic Dearomatization of Naphthols
Author(s) -
An Juzeng,
Bandini Marco
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
european journal of organic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1099-0690
pISSN - 1434-193X
DOI - 10.1002/ejoc.202000107
Subject(s) - chemistry , catalysis , heteroatom , ring (chemistry) , carbon fibers , phenol , combinatorial chemistry , organic chemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , composite number , composite material
The catalytic dearomatization of naphthols offers a unique platform to rapidly access structurally complex and densely functionalized molecular architectures. Thermodynamically more favorable, with respect to the analogous phenol‐variant, the transformation of the phenolic ring into the corresponding naphthalenone (cited here as naphthyl dearomatization) has faced a considerable amount of attention over the past decade with constant improvements towards stereocontrol. A collection of the most representative and recent catalytic variants involving carbon–carbon as well as carbon–heteroatom bond forming events are presented in this Minireview article.