C–H activation has surfaced as an increasingly powerful tool for molecular sciences, with
notable applications to material sciences, crop protection, drug discovery, and …

The chemistry of copper is extremely rich because it can easily access Cu0, CuI, CuII, and
CuIII oxidation states allowing it to act through one-electron or two-electron processes. As a …

The selective oxidation of C H bonds and the use of O2 as a stoichiometric oxidant
represent two prominent challenges in organic chemistry. Copper (II) is a versatile oxidant …

Conspectus Axially chiral compounds with rotationally constrained σ-bonds that exhibit
atropisomerism are lucrative synthetic targets because of their ubiquity in functional …

This critical review discusses historical and contemporary research in the field of transition
metal-catalyzed carbon–hydrogen (C–H) bond activation through the lens of …

This tutorial review highlights the use of catalytic asymmetric 2-naphthol couplings in total
synthesis. The types of chirality, chiral biaryl natural products, prior approaches to chiral …

Axially chiral biaryl structures are unique systems encountered in various synthetic
compounds such as BINAP and BINOL, polymers, but also in natural products presenting a …

Novel chiral iron phosphate complexes were prepared as catalysts for asymmetric oxidative
coupling reactions. These catalysts were applied for the synthesis of enantio-enriched C 1 …

The efficient synthesis of enantioenriched compounds is becoming increasingly important in
modern organic, pharmaceutical, and materials chemistry. Recently, chiral cooperative …

The design and synthesis of [1+ 1],[2+ 2],[3+ 3] or [3+ 2] macrocyclic or macrobicyclic Schiff
bases, the multiple self-condensation procedure between appropriate polyformyl-and …