This Review summarizes the state of the art in transition metal‐catalyzed alkene
hydrocyanation with special emphasis on mechanistic studies. Due to its importance for the …

The effect of fluoro substitution on the C–C bond activation of aromatic nitriles has been
studied by reacting a variety of fluorinated benzonitriles with the nickel (0) fragment [Ni …

The addition of HCN to alkenes is a very useful reaction for the synthesis of functional
organic substrates. Industrially the nickel-catalyzed hydrocyanation has gained …

An efficient and regioselective ruthenium-catalyzed hydroaminomethlyation of olefins is
reported. Key to success is the use of specific 2-phosphino-substituted imidazole ligands …

many talented scientists at DuPont, most notable among them Drs. Bill Drinkard, Chad
Tolman, and Ron McKinney, who, during the course of develo** the DuPont adiponitrile …

A selective ruthenium-catalyzed water–gas shift/hydroformylation of internal olefins and
olefin mixtures is reported. This novel domino reaction takes place through a catalytic water …

A highly regioselective ruthenium‐catalyzed hydroaminomethylation of olefins is reported.
Using easily available trirutheniumdodecacarbonyl an efficient sequence consisting of a …

Ni-catalyzed addition of electron-deficient arenes and heteroarenes to olefin substrates
through C–H activation provides an important method for the synthesis of diarylalkanes. This …

A nickel‐catalyzed hydrocyanation triggered by hydronickelation of the carbon‐carbon
double bonds of allenes followed by cyclopropane cleavage is described. The observed …

An active nickel catalyst prepared in situ from a Ni (II) compound, phosphine ligand, and zinc
powder was found to be an efficient catalyst system for the hydrocyanation of various …