Axially chiral styrenes, a type of atropisomer analogous to biaryls, have attracted great
interest because of their unique presence in natural products and asymmetric catalysis …

As one of the abundant and inexpensive metals on the earth, copper has demonstrated
broad applications in synthetic chemistry and catalysis. Among these copper-catalyzed …

Catalytic oxidative functionalization of alkynes has emerged as an effective method in
synthetic chemistry in recent decades. However, enantioselective transformations via metal …

Metal carbene is an active synthetic intermediate, which has shown versatile applications in
synthetic chemistry. Although a variety of catalytic methods have been disclosed for the …

Cyclobutanone is a strained motif with broad applications, while direct assembly of the
aromatic ring fused cyclobutanones beyond benzocyclobutenone (BCB) skeletons remains …

Exploration of intermediates that enable chemo-and stereoselective cycloaddition reactions
for the expeditious construction of fused-and bridged-ring systems continues to draw a great …

gem-Hydrogenation of an internal alkyne with the aid of [Cp* RuCl] 4 as the precatalyst is a
highly unorthodox transformation, in which one C atom of the triple bond is transformed into …

Pyridinium ylide is a versatile building block in synthetic organic chemistry, especially in the
synthesis of N‐heterocycles. In this minireview, we have summarized the advances of [3+ 2] …

The only recently discovered gem-hydrogenation of internal alkynes is a fundamentally new
transformation, in which both H atoms of dihydrogen are transferred to the same C atom of a …

In catalytic asymmetric reactions, the formation of chiral molecules generally relies on a
direct chirality transfer (point or axial chirality) from a chiral catalyst to products in the stereo …