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 …

Quinones are common stoichiometric reagents in organic chemistry. Para‐quinones with
high reduction potentials, such as DDQ and chloranil, are widely used and typically promote …

Transition-metal-catalyzed sila-cycloaddition has been a promising tool for accessing
silacarbocycle derivatives, but the approach has been limited to a selection of well-defined …

Interelement compounds, that is, compounds containing an interelement bond, 1 are
attractive main group element precursors as these provide the opportunity to transfer both …

Transition-metal-catalyzed intermolecular annulation of silicon reagents with organic
molecules is still underdeveloped due to the scarcity of silicon reagent types and their …

C–H-functionalization has emerged as a powerful tool for the synthesis of heterocyclic
compounds. 1 However, with numerous C–H-bonds simultaneously available for activation …

A new catalytic oxidation system using catalytic amounts of 2, 3‐dichloro‐5, 6‐dicyano‐1, 4‐
benzoquinone (DDQ) and tert‐butyl nitrite with molecular oxygen serving as the …

A full account of the development of the base-mediated intramolecular Diels–Alder
cycloadditions of tryptamine-derived Zincke aldehydes is described. This important …

Intramolecular homolytic aromatic silylation of biphenyl-2-hydrosilanes via silyl radicals has
been developed for the synthesis of silafluorenes. Moreover, silaindenes are synthesized …

Simple α-(bromomethyl) styrenes can be processed to a variety of 1, 1-difluorinated
electrophilic building blocks via I (I)/I (III) catalysis. This inexpensive main group catalysis …