Direct substitution of readily available alcohols is recognized as a key research area in
green chemical synthesis. Starting from simple racemic secondary alcohols, the …

The conservation of our element resources is a fundamental challenge of mankind. The
development of alcohol refunctionalization reactions is a possible fossil carbon conservation …

The review highlights the recent advances (2013-present) in the use of earth-abundant first
row transition metals in homogeneous borrowing hydrogen catalysis. The utility of catalysts …

The present review “Iron Catalysis in Organic Synthesis” covers the literature until the end of
June 2014 and represents a comprehensive update of a previous article published by Bolm …

Conspectus The substitution of expensive and potentially toxic noble-metal catalysts by
cheap, abundant, environmentally benign, and less toxic metals is highly desirable and in …

The cooperation and interplay between organic and metal catalyst systems is of utmost
importance in nature and chemical synthesis. Here innovative and selective cooperative …

An unprecedented hydroalkylation of racemic allylic alcohols and racemic ketimine esters
enabled by Cu/Ru relay catalysis has been developed via merging the ruthenium‐catalyzed …

The endeavor of mastering “Nature-like Multicatalysis” in vitro has inspired chemists to
develop catalytic systems comprising a variable number of catalysts in one-pot. Having been …

Living on borrowed hydrogen: Recent developments in iron‐and cobalt‐catalyzed
borrowing hydrogen have shown that economically reliable catalysts can be used in this …

Hydrogen‐borrowing catalysis represents a powerful method for the alkylation of amine or
enolate nucleophiles with non‐activated alcohols. This approach relies upon a catalyst that …