Fluorinated organic compounds increasingly gain importance in numerous areas of
chemistry and everyday life. Building blocks which contain fluorinated entities are of high …

Alkanes constitute the cheapest and most abundant feedstock for organic chemicals.
However, the redistribution of CsC and CsH bonds in hydrocarbons into more sophisticated …

The most fundamental concepts in chemistry are structure, energetics, reactivity and their
inter-relationships, which are indispensable for promoting chemistry into a rational science …

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 …

Partially fluorinated alkanes, arenes, and alkenes can be transformed by a variety of
transition metal and lanthanide systems. Although the C–H bond is weaker than the C–F …

In this Account, we describe the transition metal-mediated cleavage of C− F and C− H bonds
in fluoroaromatic and fluoroheteroaromatic molecules. The simplest reactions of …

The activation and functionalization of carbon–fluorine bonds can be considered as a major
challenge in organometallic chemistry. The growing demand for means to introduce fluorine …

The synthesis of organic compounds efficiently via fewer steps but in higher yields is
desirable as this reduces energy and reagent use, waste production, and thus …

We report the alkynylation of C (sp2)–H bonds with bromoalkynes (inverse-Sonogashira
reaction) directed by synthetically useful ester, ketone, and ether groups under rhodium …

With fluoroaromatic compounds increasingly employed as scaffolds in agrochemicals and
active pharmaceutical ingredients, the development of methods which facilitate …