@article {45479,
	title = {Ni-catalyzed dehydrogenative coupling of primary and secondary alcohols with methyl-N-heteroaromatics},
	journal = {Organic Chemistry Frontiers},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2018},
	month = {NOV},
	pages = {3250-3255},
	type = {Article },
	abstract = {Here we report the first base-metal catalyzed dehydrogenative coupling of primary (aromatic, heteroaromatic, and aliphatic) and secondary alcohols with methyl-N-heteroaromatics to form various C(sp(3))-alkylated N-heteroaromatics. The reaction is enabled by Earth abundant, non-precious NiBr2 as a transition metal catalyst and N,N,N,N-tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) as a ligand system. Mechanistic studies reveal that a hydrogen auto-transfer process is involved in the direct C(sp(3))-alkylation and the reaction proceeds through an -olefination process.},
	doi = {10.1039/c8qo00764k},
	author = {Rana, Jagannath and Babu, Reshma and Subaramanian, Murugan and Balaraman, Ekambaram}
}
@article {46745,
	title = {Iron-catalyzed direct julia-type olefination of alcohols},
	journal = {Journal of Organic Chemistry},
	volume = {85},
	year = {2020},
	month = {AUG },
	pages = {9876-9886},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {<p>Herein, we report an iron-catalyzed, convenient, and expedient strategy for the synthesis of styrene and naphthalene derivatives with the liberation of dihydrogen. The use of a catalyst derived from an earth-abundant metal provides a sustainable strategy to olefins. This method exhibits wide substrate scope (primary and secondary alcohols) functional group tolerance amino, nitro, halo, alkoxy, thiomethoxy, and S- and N-heterocyclic compounds) that can be scaled up. The unprecedented synthesis of 1-methyl naphthalenes proceeds via tandem methenylation/double dehydrogenation. Mechanistic study shows that the cleavage of the C-H bond of alcohol is the rate-determining step.</p>
},
	issn = {0022-3263},
	doi = {10.1021/acs.joc.0c01173},
	author = {Landge, Vinod G. and Babu, Reshma and Yadav, Vinita and Subaramanian, Murugan and Gupta, Virendrakumar and Balaraman, Ekambaram}
}
@article {47597,
	title = {Tandem acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling-decyanation under nickel catalysis},
	journal = {Journal of Organic Chemistry},
	volume = {86},
	year = {2021},
	month = {JUN},
	pages = {7552-7562},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {The development of new catalytic processes based on abundantly available starting materials by cheap metals is always a fascinating task and marks an important transition in the chemical industry. Herein, a nickel-catalyzed acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling of alcohols with nitriles followed by decyanation of nitriles to access diversely substituted olefins is reported. This unprecedented C=C bond-forming methodology takes place in a tandem manner with the formation of formamide as a sole byproduct. The significant advantages of this strategy are the low-cost nickel catalyst, good functional group compatibility (ether, thioether, halo, cyano, ester, amino, N/O/S heterocycles; 43 examples), synthetic convenience, and high reaction selectivity and efficiency.},
	issn = {0022-3263},
	doi = {10.1021/acs.joc.1c00592},
	author = {Midya, Siba P. and Subaramanian, Murugan and Babu, Reshma and Yadav, Vinita and Balaraman, Ekambaram}
}
