The dream to prepare well-defined materials drives the methodological evolution for
molecular synthesis, structural control and materials manufacturing. Among various …

This Review compiles the evolution, mechanistic understanding, and more recent advances
in enantioselective Pd-catalyzed allylic substitution and decarboxylative and oxidative allylic …

Alkene dicarbofunctionalizations enable the streamlined construction of aliphatic structures
and have thus been the subject of intense research efforts. Despite significant progress …

Ligand-accelerated catalysis (LAC), a term originally coined by Sharpless, has been a
pivotal guiding principle in the advancement of asymmetric catalysis. The discovery and …

Develo** new strategies to enable chemo-and regioselective reductions is an important
topic in chemical research. Herein, an efficient and regioselective Pd/IPrBIDEA-catalyzed …

A user-friendly approach is presented to sidestep the venerable Grignard addition to
unactivated ketones to access tertiary alcohols by reversing the polarity of the disconnection …

Conspectus Chemo-and stereoselective transformations of polyborylalkanes are powerful
and efficient methods to access optically active molecules with greater complexity and …

Geminal bis (boronates) are versatile synthetic building blocks in organic chemistry. The fact
that they predominantly serve as nucleophiles in the previous reports, however, has …

Recently, gem-diborylalkanes have attracted much attention as versatile building blocks and
fundamental intermediates in organic synthesis, because they enable multiple C–C bond …

Asymmetric cross‐couplings based on 1, 2‐carbon migration from B‐ate complexes have
been developed efficiently to access valuable organoboronates. However, enantioselective …