Conspectus Recently, alkene dicarbofunctionalization, ie, the powerful organic synthesis
method of alkene difunctionalization with two carbon sources, emerged as a formidable …

Gold complexes have emerged as the catalysts of choice for various functionalization
reactions of C–C multiple bonds due to their inherent carbophilic nature. In a parallel space …

Conspectus Chain-walking offers extensive opportunities for innovating synthetic methods
that involve constructing chemical bonds at unconventional sites. This approach provides …

The exceptional versatility of sulfones has been extensively exploited in organic synthesis
across several decades. Since the first demonstration in 2005 that sulfones can participate …

Three-component carboacylation of simple alkenes with readily available reagents is
challenging. Transition metal-catalysed intermolecular carboacylation works for alkenes with …

Catalytic functionalization of alkynes with organoboron reagents provides a straightforward
access to stereochemically defined multisubstituted alkenes, which are structural motifs …

In the era of organic synthesis, the direct difunctionalization strategies of alkenes and
alkynes are very eminent, which open up an excellent route to introduce two functional …

Alkene hydrocarbonation reactions have been developed to supplement traditional
electrophile-nucleophile cross-coupling reactions. The branch-selective hydroalkylation …

Remote functionalization of alkenes via chain walking has generally been limited to C (sp3)–
H bonds α and β to polar-functional units, while γ-C (sp3)–H functionalization through …

Abstract Transition‐metal catalyzed intermolecular 1, 2‐diarylation of electronically
unactivated alkenes has emerged as an extensive research topic in organic synthesis …