Three-and four-membered rings, widespread motifs in nature and medicinal chemistry, have
fascinated chemists ever since their discovery. However, due to energetic considerations …

For centuries, gold had been considered a precious, purely decorative inert metal. It was not
until 1986 that Ito and Hayashi described the first application of gold (I) in homogeneous …

The field of organometallic catalysis has attracted considerable interest from both academia
and industry due to its broad applications in synthetic transformations. Pd, Ni, Rh, and Ir …

Three‐component reactions can directly convert three reactants into the desired products in
one pot and thus greatly shorten the synthetic path. Recently, transition‐metal catalysis has …

The copper-catalyzed functionalization of enyne derivatives has recently emerged as a
powerful approach in contemporary synthesis. Enynes are versatile and readily accessible …

The photochemical deracemization of 2, 4-disubstituted 2, 3-butadienamides (allene
amides) was investigated both experimentally and theoretically. The reaction was catalyzed …

Allene (C3H4) gas is produced and separated on million-metric-ton scale per year during
petroleum refining but is rarely employed in organic synthesis. Meanwhile, the addition of an …

We herein describe a synergistic chiral primary amine/achiral palladium catalyzed
enantioselective terminal addition to allenes with α-branched β-ketocarbonyls and …

The direct functionalisation of allenes under copper catalysis enables efficient access to
enantioenriched, densely functionalised molecules. In this review we explore the breadth …

Ruthenium (II)‐catalyzed direct C H functionalization of aromatic compounds with allenes
was achieved under exceedingly mild reaction conditions to yield trisubstituted allenes. The …