Construction of new carbon–carbon bonds is the cornerstone of organic chemistry.
Organometallic reagents are amongst the most robust and versatile nucleophiles for this …

Carbonyl Umpolung is a powerful strategy in organic chemistry to construct complex
molecules. Over the last few years, versatile catalytic approaches for the generation of acyl …

Carbonyls and alkenes are versatile functional groups, whose reactivities are cornerstones
of organic synthesis. The selective combination of two carbonyls to form an alkene—a …

The combination of photoredox catalysis with the Wolff–Kishner (WK) reaction allows the
difunctionalization of carbonyl groups by a radical-carbanion relay sequence (photo-Wolff …

A visible-light-induced, transition-metal and photosensitizer-free cross-coupling of aryl
iodides with hydrazones was developed. In this strategy, hydrazones were used as …

Here we describe the Mo-catalyzed intermolecular deoxygenative cross coupling of the
bench stable and readily accessible1, 2-diketones with α-ketoamides, in which three of the …

Palladium‐catalyzed allylic alkylation of nonstabilized carbon nucleophiles is difficult and
remains a major challenge. Reported here is a highly chemo‐and regioselective direct …

Aldehydes and ketones are widely found in biomass resources and play important roles in
organic synthesis. However, the direct deoxygenative coupling of aldehydes or ketones to …

Carbonyl–carbonyl olefination, known as McMurry reaction, represents a powerful strategy
for the construction of olefins. However, catalytic variants that directly couple two carbonyl …

Controlling reaction selectivity is a permanent pursuit for chemists. Regioselective catalysis,
which exploits and/or overcomes innate steric and electronic bias to deliver diverse regio …