The past decades have witnessed rapid development in organic synthesis via catalysis,
particularly the reactions through C–H bond functionalization. Transition metals such as Pd …

The catalytic functionalization of unreactive C− H bonds has recently brought a revolution in
synthetic methodologies for the production of pharmaceuticals and natural products and for …

Synthetically useful functional groups, including ketones, amides, carbamates, carboxylic
acids, aldehydes or ethers, have been identified as weakly coordinating directing groups in …

This chapter highlights the robust, cost-effective Ru catalyst-mediated direct functionalization
of C− H bonds. The development of Ru-catalyzed novel synthetic methods for the …

Organic syntheses based on the activation of C–H bonds catalysed by transition metals (TM)
are of great interest because new pathways can be designed that were not previously …

This chapter describes the recent achievements since 2011 of ruthenium (II)-catalysed
transformations of sp 2 C–H bonds of a variety of functional arenes, heterocycles, alkenes …

Stoichiometric cycloruthenation reactions of substrates containing Lewis-basic
functionalities set the stage for efficient ruthenium-catalyzed C–H bond functionalization …

Functionalized biaryl-containing motifs are among the most valuable synthetic scaffolds in
organic chemistry with wide ranging commercial applications in pharmaceuticals, functional …

Once considered the “holy grail” of organometallic chemistry, synthetically useful reactions
employing CH bond activation have increasingly been developed and applied to natural …

Ruthenium complexes are well known as remarkable pre-catalysts for challenging C–H
bond functionalizations. Combining them with other types of chemical reactions in a tandem …