This review describes the development of enantioselective methods for the ring opening of
cyclopropanes. Both approaches based on the reaction of nonchiral cyclopropanes and …

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 …

Driven by the ever-increasing pace of drug discovery and the need to push the boundaries
of unexplored chemical space, medicinal chemists are routinely turning to unusual strained …

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 …

Methylene-and alkylidenecyclopropanes (MCPs and ACPs, 1, Figure 1) and-cyclobutanes
(MCBs and ACBs, 2, Figure 1) are highly strained molecules, but at the same time most of …

This critical review discusses recent developments in the field of cyclopropene chemistry.
Although several excellent reviews that mainly focused on the thermolysis and pyrolysis as …

Triflimide (HNTf2) is a commercially available and highly versatile super Brønsted acid.
Owing to its strong acidity as well as good compatibility with organic solvents, it has been …

An unprecedented Rh (III)-catalyzed C–H activation/cycloaddition of benzamides and
methylenecyclopropanes for the selective synthesis of spiro dihydroisoquinolinones and …

Since the first discovery of carbocupration of alkynes in the 1970s a tremendous amount of
research has been carried out in this field. The exceptionally high selectivities obtained …

Gold-catalyzed reactions, which have been widely explored over the past several years, are
powerful tools in organic synthesis to access complex molecular frameworks, and some …