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

The pinacol rearrangement1 is a well-known reaction. It refers to the acid-catalyzed
transformation of 1, 2-diols to ketones or aldehydes by 1, 2-migration of a CÀC or CÀH bond …

The exploitation of ring strain as a driving force to facilitate chemical reactions is a well‐
appreciated principle in organic chemistry. The most prominent and most frequently used …

A visible-light-mediated, enantioselective approach to axially chiral alkenes is described.
Starting from a racemic mixture, a major alkene enantiomer is formed due to selective triplet …

Cycloaddition is a step-and atom-economic method for the synthesis of five-membered
rings. Despite the great success of 1, 3-dipolar cycloadditions, the radical [3+ 2] annulation …

A Pd‐catalyzed hydrophosphinylation of alkyl and aryl‐oxyallenes with phosphine oxides
has been developed for the efficient and rapid construction of a family of chiral allylic …

New catalytic ring-expansion reactions of strained ring (hetero-and carbocyclic) substrates
reported in the last six years (2006–2012) are presented. As evident from the diversity of …

The allene moiety represents an excellent partner for the [2+ 2] cycloaddition with alkenes
and alkynes, affording the cyclobutane and cyclobutene skeletons in a single step. This …

I am highly honored to be the co-recipient of the Tetrahedron Prize for 2014 with Professor
Jiro Tsuji for our work on metal catalyzed allylic alkylation, notably that using palladium. In …

The Pd-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation (AAA) is one of the most useful and versatile
methods for asymmetric synthesis known in organometallic chemistry. Development of this …