The fascinating story of olefin (or alkene) metathesis (eq 1) began almost five decades ago,
when Anderson and Merckling reported the first carbonrcarbon double-bond rearrangement …

N‐Heterocyclic carbenes have become universal ligands in organometallic and inorganic
coordination chemistry. They not only bind to any transition metal, be it in low or high …

A palladium‐catalyzed reductive difluorocarbene transfer reaction that tames
difluorocarbene to couple with two electrophiles has been developed, representing a new …

Difluoromethylated aromatic compounds are of increasing importance in pharmaceuticals,
agrochemicals and materials. Chlorodifluoromethane (ClCF2H), an inexpensive, abundant …

Since the discovery of olefin metathesis in the mid-1950s, there has been great interest in
using this versatile reaction to synthesize macromolecular materials. More recently, living …

Olefin metathesis has become a tool for synthetic organic and polymer chemists. Well-
defined, functional group tolerant catalysts have allowed these advances. A discussion of …

Difluorocarbene has important applications in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and
materials, but all these applications proceed using just a few types of reaction by taking …

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Fluoroalkenes are known to be notoriously reluctant substrates for olefin metathesis due to
the generation of thermodynamically stable Fischer-type fluorocarbene intermediates, which …

Organofluorine compounds 1 have found increasing applications in key industrial fields
such as the pharmaceutical 2 and medicinal chemistry 3 or crop 4 and material sciences, 5 …