The use of alcohols and unsaturated reactants for the redox‐triggered generation of
nucleophile–electrophile pairs represents a broad, new approach to carbonyl addition …

The ability of hydrogen‐transfer transition‐metal catalysts, which enable increasingly rapid
access to important structural scaffolds from simple starting materials, has led to a plethora …

Plastics are indispensable materials in modern society; however, their extensive use has
contributed to the depletion of finite natural resources and caused severe environmental …

A novel class of chiral sulfinamide phosphine catalysts (Xiao‐Phos) are reported, which can
be easily prepared from inexpensive commercially available starting materials. The Xiao …

Teambildung: Die Titelreaktion bietet diastereoselektiven Zugang zu α‐Alkyliden‐γ‐
butyrolactonen mit bis zu 98% ee (siehe Schema; Ts= 4‐Toluolsulfonyl). Der …

Radical cascade processes are invaluable for their ability to rapidly construct complex chiral
molecules from simple substrates. However, implementing catalytic asymmetric variants is …

The collective synthesis of skeletally diverse Stemona alkaloids featuring tailored dyotropic
rearrangements of β‐lactones as key elements is described. Specifically, three typical 5/7/5 …

A highly efficient and mild palladium‐catalyzed, one‐pot, four‐step cascade annulation has
been developed to afford functionalized β‐and γ‐lactones in moderate to good yields with …

Abstract Die Verwendung von Alkoholen und ungesättigten Reaktanten zur
redoxvermittelten Bildung von Nucleophil‐Elektrophil‐Paaren stellt einen breiten …

Alkenes are very important moieties in organic chemistry and have been employed as
starting materials for the synthesis of important organic compounds. In this review, we …