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

Multicomponent reactions have gained significant importance as a tool for the synthesis of a
wide variety of useful compounds, including pharmaceuticals. In this context, the multiple …

Enaminones have in the past decade received renewed interest in organic synthesis by
acting as highly versatile building blocks. Particularly, the featured amino and carbonyl …

A novel iodine-promoted difunctionalization of α-C sites in enaminones was demonstrated
as a means of synthesizing a variety of fully substituted thiazoles by constructing C–C (CO) …

The visible light induced C–H bond thiocyanation on the α-site of tertiary enaminones has
been realized under metal-free, photocatalytic conditions in the presence of Rose Bengal …

The first copper-catalyzed direct β-functionalization of saturated ketones is reported. This
protocol enables diverse ketones to couple with a wide range of nitrogen, oxygen and …

Resonance‐assisted hydrogen bonding (RAHB), a concept introduced by Gilli and co‐
workers in 1989, concerns a kind of intramolecular H‐bonding strengthened by a …

Enaminones are gaining increasing interest because of their unique properties and their
importance in organic synthesis as versatile building blocks. N, N-Dimethyl enaminones …

The use of enaminones as effective synthons for a directed C− H functionalization is
reported. Proof‐of‐concept protocols have been developed for the RhIII‐catalyzed synthesis …

As a kind of environmentally benign reagents, α-keto acids have been extensively employed
as key starting materials in organic synthesis. Organic electrosynthesis has the advantages …