Alkenes and their derivatives are featured widely in a variety of natural products,
pharmaceuticals, and advanced materials. Significant efforts have been made toward the …

During the past decades, synthetic organic chemistry discovered that directing group
assisted C–H activation is a key tool for the expedient and siteselective construction of C–C …

C–H activation has surfaced as an increasingly powerful tool for molecular sciences, with
notable applications to material sciences, crop protection, drug discovery, and …

Resource economy constitutes one of the key challenges for researchers and practitioners
in academia and industries, in terms of rising demand for sustainable and green synthetic …

Transition-metal-catalyzed C–H activation followed by oxidative cyclization with unsaturated
coupling partners has been a valuable synthetic tool for the multiring molecular scaffolds …

This review focuses on cobalt-catalyzed, chelation-assisted Csingle bondH functionalization
reactions in which an N, N′-bidentate directing group is used. Cobalt complexes are now …

Heterocyclic compounds are the fundamental structural motifs distributed in natural
products, pharmaceuticals and biologically active compounds. Thus, there is increasing …

Over the last decade, high-valent cobalt catalysis has earned a place in the spotlight as a
valuable tool for C–H activation and functionalization. Since the discovery of its unique …

Herein we report a cobalt-catalyzed enantioselective C–H/N–H annulation of aryl
sulfonamides with allenes and alkynes, using either chemical or electrochemical oxidation …

Versatile cobalt catalysis enabled electrochemical C–H activation with allenes. Thus, allene
annulations were accomplished in terms of C–H/N–H functionalizations with excellent levels …