The hallmark of nucleophilic phosphine catalysis is the initial nucleophilic addition of a
phosphine to an electrophilic starting material, producing a reactive zwitterionic …

Hydrofunctionalisation and difunctionalisation of dienes, allenes, and alkynes are widely
utilized in the synthesis of valuable allylic compounds. In the past decades, asymmetric …

Allenes are the simplest class of cumulenes, with two contiguous C C bonds, and show
unique physical and chemical properties. These features make allenes particularly attractive …

The development of new strategies and chemical reactions continues to be a major focus of
research efforts in the modern synthetic organic community. 1 Of the various types of …

Nucleophilic phosphine catalysis of allenes with electrophiles is one of the most powerful
and straightforward synthetic strategies for the generation of highly functionalized …

Nucleophilic phosphine catalysis is a practical and powerful tool for the synthesis of various
heterocyclic compounds with the advantages of environmentally friendly, metal-free, and …

Conspectus The combination of two or more unsaturated structural units to form cyclic
organic compounds is commonly referred to as cycloaddition, and the combination of two …

Chiral monophosphorus ligands are playing an important role for the recent advances in
asymmetric catalysis. This review summarizes the latest progress in various asymmetric …

The increasing synthetic utility of allenes in organic synthesis combined with their
incorporation into a growing list of natural products and active pharmaceutical ingredients …

In this paper we describe the phosphine-catalyzed [3+ 2],[3+ 3],[4+ 3], and [3+ 2+ 3]
annulations of azomethine imines and allenoates. These processes mark the first use of …