BACKGROUND Catalysis has had a transformative impact on society, playing a crucial role
in the production of modern materials, medicines, fuels, and chemicals. Precious metals …

The use of metal–ligand cooperation (MLC) by transition metal bifunctional catalysts has
emerged at the forefront of homogeneous catalysis science. Specially designed ligands can …

The use of metal catalysts to produce and control the reactivity of carbenes has long offered
a powerful approach to organic synthesis; however, difluorocarbene transfer catalysed by …

Nitrenes are a highly reactive, yet fundamental, compound class. They possess a
monovalent nitrogen atom and usually a short life span, typically in the nanosecond range …

Rhodium (Rh) acylnitrene complexes are widely implicated in catalytic C–H amidation
reactions but have eluded isolation and structural characterization. To overcome this …

Seventeen Cu complexes with formal oxidation states ranging from CuI to CuIII are
investigated through the use of multiedge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and density …

Titanium is the second most abundant transition metal and is already a key player in
important industrial processes (eg polyethylene). Titanium is an attractive metal to use for …

Synthetic chemistry is built around the formation of carbon–carbon bonds. However, the
development of methods for selective carbon–carbon bond cleavage is a largely unmet …

Conversion of C–H bonds to C–N bonds via C–H amination promises to streamline the
synthesis of nitrogen-containing compounds. Nitrogen-group transfer (NGT) from metal …

A concept for intermolecular C–N cross-coupling amination has been discovered using
tetrazoles and aromatic and aliphatic azides with boronic acids under iron-catalyzed …