RSC Publishing


Publishing

 

Cover image for Chemical Society Reviews, select for current issue

Chemical Society Reviews

The home of high impact reviews from across the chemical sciences.



Subscribers

Non-subscribers

Free access



Critical Review

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2007, 36, 1173 - 1193, DOI: 10.1039/b606984n


Direct transition metal-catalyzed functionalization of heteroaromatic compounds

Ilya V. Seregin and Vladimir Gevorgyan


During the last two decades there has been considerable growth in the development of catalytic reactions capable of activating unreactive C–H bonds. These methods allow for the synthesis of complex molecules from easily available and cheaper precursors in a fewer number of steps. Naturally, the development of C–H activation methods for direct functionalization of heterocyclic molecules, invaluable building blocks for pharmaceutical and synthetic chemistry and material science, has received substantial attention as well. This critical review summarizes the progress made in this field until November 2006 (117 references).

Graphical abstract image for this article  (ID: b606984n)