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

Copper and palladium catalysts are critically important in numerous commercial chemical
processes. Improvements in the activity, selectivity and scope of these catalysts could …

Asymmetric catalysis with transition‐metal complexes is the basis for a vast array of
stereoselective transformations and has changed the face of modern synthetic chemistry …

Direct catalytic modifications of carbon–hydrogen (CH) bonds, ubiquitous in organic
molecules, represent a powerful strategy in organic synthesis. In the past decade, chemists …

Nowadays, about 150 natural products comprising an allenic or cumulenic structure are
known. The chemistry of these compounds has turned out to be a very attractive and prolific …

Organometallic CuIII species have been invoked in many copper-catalyzed reactions, but
until recently, experimental evidences were lacking. The advent of new spectroscopic …

In the past decades there has been a dramatic increase in the demand for enantiopure
compounds for fine-chemicals (ie, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals) and material …

Since the groundbreaking work by Gilman1 in the 1950s, cuprates have become versatile
tools in organic synthesis, more precisely, in 1, 4-addition reactions to R,-unsaturated …

The preparation of highly functionalized organometallic compounds can be achieved by
direct C H activation of a broad range of unsaturated substrates using lithium chloride …

Organocopper compounds in organic chemistry appear most frequently in the form of
nucleophilic organocopper (I) reagents, which are used either as stoichiometric reagents or …