Conspectus α-Diazocarbonyl compounds serve as nucleophiles, dipoles, carbene
precursors, and rare electrophiles, enabling a vast array of organic transformations under …

Homogeneous gold catalysis has experienced extraordinary development since the dawn of
this millennium. Oxidative gold catalysis is a vibrant and fertile subfield and has over the …

Conspectus Over recent decades, N-sulfonylhydrazones have attracted significant attention
in academic and industrial contexts owing to their ease of preparation, versatile reactivity …

Transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions have been well-established as
indispensable tools in modern organic synthesis. One of the major research goals in cross …

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

In 1994, Ye and McKervey published a paper in Chemical Reviews entitled “Organic
Synthesis with α-Diazocarbonyl Compounds”. 1 Our intention then was to draw attention to …

This review highlights key reactivities relying on C–C bond cleavages of cyclopropenes.
Metal-catalyzed and metal-free transformations are covered in reactions involving direct ring …

The direct functionalization of C H bonds in organic compounds has recently emerged as a
powerful and ideal method for the formation of carbon–carbon and carbon–heteroatom …

Recent developments in catalytic asymmetric aldol reactions have been summarized.
Enantioselective aldol reactions are important methods to synthesize β-hydroxy carbonyl …

An isolated Csingle bondH bond in a molecule has a very low reactivity owing to the large
kinetic barrier associated to the Csingle bondH bond cleavage and the apolar nature of this …