Following a strong regain of interest over the past 20 years in the chemistry of allenes, this
“forgotten” family of unsaturated molecules is undergoing a renaissance. In this context, the …

Metal-catalyzed reductive coupling has emerged as an alternative to the use of
stoichiometric organometallic reagents in an increasingly diverse range of carbonyl and …

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 …

Tridentate PSiP pincer-type palladium complex-catalyzed hydrocarboxylation of allenes
under carbon dioxide to give synthetically useful β, γ-unsaturated carboxylic acids was …

The reactivity of alcohols can be enhanced by the temporary removal of hydrogen using a
transition metal catalyst to generate an intermediate aldehyde or ketone. The so-formed …

Under the conditions of transfer hydrogenation employing an iridium catalyst generated in
situ from [Ir (cod) Cl] 2, chiral phosphine ligand (R)-BINAP or (R)-Cl, MeO-BIPHEP, and m …

Classical protocols for carbonyl allylation, propargylation and vinylation typically rely upon
the use of preformed allyl metal, allenyl metal and vinyl metal reagents, respectively …

The transition-metal-catalyzed direct functionalization of Caryl–H bonds is a rapidly growing
field in organic chemistry that enables efficient access to a broad variety of building …

Diverse late transition metal catalysts convert terminal or internal alkynes into transient
allylmetal species that display electrophilic or nucleophilic properties. Whereas classical …

We report a method for the highly enantioselective CuH-catalyzed allylation of ketones that
employs terminal allenes as allylmetal surrogates. Ketones and allenes bearing diverse and …