C–H functionalization has been emerging as a powerful method to establish carbon–carbon
and carbon–heteroatom bonds. Many efforts have been devoted to transition-metal …

Donor and donor–donor carbenes are two important kinds of carbenes, which have
experienced tremendous growth in the past two decades. This review provides a …

Transition-metal-catalysed carbenoid insertion of hydroxyl groups represents a robust and
versatile method to forge C–O bonds. Achieving site-selective functionalization of alcohols …

The effective use of ring strain has been applied to considerable advantage for the
construction of complex systems. The focus here is directed towards cyclopropanes as …

Interest in homogeneous gold catalysis has undergone a marked increase. As strong yet air-
and moisture-tolerant π-acids, cationic gold (I) complexes have been shown to catalyze …

The chemistry of copper is extremely rich because it can easily access Cu0, CuI, CuII, and
CuIII oxidation states allowing it to act through one-electron or two-electron processes. As a …

The field of organometallic catalysis has attracted considerable interest from both academia
and industry due to its broad applications in synthetic transformations. Pd, Ni, Rh, and Ir …

Donor/donor carbenes are relatively new in the field of carbene chemistry; although
applications in C− H and X− H insertion reactions are few in number, they demonstrate …

Discovered as organometallic curiosities in the 1970s, carbene radicals have become a
staple in modern-day homogeneous catalysis. Carbene radicals exhibit nucleophilic radical …

Research in the mid 1960s to early 1970s sparked an evolution in the approach of synthetic
chemists toward the assembly of molecules. Inspired by known Wacker-type processes in …