Metal-catalyzed highly Markovnikov-type selective hydrofunctionalization of terminal alkynes
provides a straightforward and atom-economical route to access 1, 1-disubstituted alkenes …

In the vast majority of top-selling pharmaceutical and industrial products, phenolic structural
motifs are highly prevalent. Non-functionalized simple phenols serve as building blocks in …

The hydroarylation of alkynes, alkenes, and allenes is a cost-effective and efficient way to
incorporate unsaturated moieties into aromatic substrates. This review focuses on gold …

A gold (I)‐catalyzed enantioselective dearomatization is achieved via metal‐chiral ligand
cooperation. A new and divergent synthesis of chiral bifunctional binaphthyl‐2 …

An overview of the current state of mechanistic understanding of gold-catalyzed
intermolecular alkyne hydrofunctionalization reactions is presented. Moving from the …

Over the past two decades, homogeneous gold catalysis has experienced exponential
development and contributed a plethora of highly valuable synthetic methods to the …

The mechanism and origin of stereoselectivity of silver-catalyzed hydroalkylation of alkynes
were computationally investigated at the B3LYP-D3BJ/6-311+ G (d, p)-SDD//B3LYP/6-31G …

Substituted naphthols (SNs) are an important class of chemical compounds present in many
natural and synthetic products with biological and pharmaceutical activities. Moreover, the …

The action of 2-(1-arylethylidene) malononitriles on 2-nitro-1 H-benzo [f] chromenes in the
presence of Et3N and MoO3· 2H2O results in naphtho [2, 1-b] furans containing an …

A gold-catalyzed intermolecular hydroarylation involving arylboronic acid has been
disclosed. This carboxylic acid-directed arylation is highly regioselective and occurs at the …