Organolithium reagents were first prepared in 1917 by Schlenk 1a and developed in the
following three decades by major contributions from Ziegler (who first prepared n-BuLi and …

The challenges of the modern society and the growing demand of high-technology sectors
of industrial production bring about a new phase in the development of organic synthesis. A …

Gold-catalyzed reactions have witnessed an exponential growth in the past decade. When
the unique modes of activation exhibited by gold species meet species with either …

This article describes the copper-catalyzed oxidative trifluoromethylation of heteroarenes
and highly electron-deficient arenes with CF3SiMe3 through direct C–H activation. In the …

The incorporation of fluorine-containing moieties into organic compounds is of great
importance in pharmaceutical, agricultural, and materials science. Within these …

Push–pull alkenes, which bear electron-donating and-accepting group (s) at both termini of
a C C double bond, respectively, are of interest not only for their unique electronic …

The increasing demand for the development of unprecedented routes to access fluorinated
molecules has led researchers to perform intriguing research around the world. In this …

A novel copper‐catalyzed one‐pot functionalization of homopropargylic alcohols that
involves trifluoromethylation, aryl migration, and formation of a carbonyl moiety has been …

The mechanism of CF3 transfer from R3SiCF3 (R= Me, Et, i Pr) to ketones and aldehydes,
initiated by M+ X–(< 0.004 to 10 mol%), has been investigated by analysis of kinetics …

An efficacious method for building fluorovinyl spiro-[imidazole-indene] and α-amino-β-
naphthalenone skeletons synchronously has been shown to consist of Rh (III)-catalyzed C …