The use of transition metals to catalyse the addition of hydridoboranes to unsaturated
organic molecules was initially realised several decades ago. Although this area of …

Organoboron reagents represent a unique class of compounds because of their utility in
modern synthetic organic chemistry, often affording unprecedented reactivity. The …

Hydroboration of alkynes is of special interest to researchers since it is the most
straightforward process for the synthesis of highly important vinylborane synthetic …

The catalytic hydroboration of imines, nitriles, and carbodiimides is a powerful method of
preparing amines which are key synthetic intermediates in the synthesis of many value …

The chemo‐and stereoselective semi‐hydrogenation of alkynes to alkenes is a fundamental
transformation in synthetic chemistry, for which the use of precious 4d or 5d metal catalysts …

The challenging hydroboration of esters is achieved using simple uranium and thorium
amides, U [N (SiMe3) 2] 3 and [(Me3Si) 2N] 2An [κ2-(N, C)-CH2Si (CH3) 2N (SiMe3)](An …

Catalytic reduction of nitriles is considered as an attractive and atom‐economical route to a
diversity of synthetically valuable primary amines. Compared to other methods …

We report the synthesis of a zirconium complex {κ2-[Ph2P (S) NCH2CH2N (CH2CH2) O] Zr
(C5H5) 2Cl}(2) supported by a flexible amidophosphinosulfide ligand [Ph2P (S) N (CH2) 2N …

During the past decade earth‐abundant metals have become increasingly important in
homogeneous catalysis. One of the reactions in which earth‐abundant metals have found …

We present here an efficient method for the hydroboration of organic nitriles, carboxylic
esters, and carboxamides with pinacolborane (HBpin) using an alkali metal catalyst …