Gold carbenes are highly active intermediates in homogeneous gold catalysis, enabling a
large array of transformations such as C–H/X–H insertions, cyclopropanations, and 1, 2 …

Organic transformations that involve direct functionalization of C–H bonds represent an
attractive synthetic strategy that maximizes atom-and step-economy. With the generally high …

The development of new strategies and chemical reactions continues to be a major focus of
research efforts in the modern synthetic organic community. 1 Of the various types of …

The past decade has witnessed the golden age of homogeneous gold-catalyzed reactions,
especially those that involve the transformation of highly strained molecules into complex …

A Pd-catalyzed asymmetric higher-order dipolar cycloaddition between allenyl carbonates
and azadienes is achieved by exploiting novel alkylidene-π-allyl-Pd dipoles. This research …

The release of the inherent ring strain of cyclobutane and cyclopropane derivatives allows a
rapid build-up of molecular complexity. This review highlights the state-of-the-art of the ring …

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Gold catalysis is often the key step in the synthesis of natural products, and is a powerful tool
for tandem or domino reaction processes. Both gold salts and complexes are among the …

Vinylcyclopropane (VCP) derivatives participate in a variety of transition-metal-catalyzed
multicomponent cycloadditions to produce five-to eight-membered carbocycles. Various …

New catalytic ring-expansion reactions of strained ring (hetero-and carbocyclic) substrates
reported in the last six years (2006–2012) are presented. As evident from the diversity of …