{"title":"Coupling reactions using iron–sodium pairs","authors":"Jos Briggs-Pritchard, Michael L. Neidig","doi":"10.1038/s44160-025-00779-7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Organosodium reagents have long been considered too reactive for application in organic synthesis. Now, sodium-based nucleophiles can be used with iron catalysis to enable C(sp2) homo-coupling and C(sp2)–C(sp3) cross-coupling reactions.","PeriodicalId":74251,"journal":{"name":"Nature synthesis","volume":"4 7","pages":"783-784"},"PeriodicalIF":20.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature synthesis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-025-00779-7","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Organosodium reagents have long been considered too reactive for application in organic synthesis. Now, sodium-based nucleophiles can be used with iron catalysis to enable C(sp2) homo-coupling and C(sp2)–C(sp3) cross-coupling reactions.