Abstract The 1, 2-diamine motif is present in a number of natural products with interesting
biological activity and in many important pharmaceutical agents. Chiral 1, 2-diamines are …

The 1, 2-diamine moiety is an ubiquitous structural motif found in a wealth of natural
products, including non-proteinogenic amino acids and alkaloids, in pharmaceutical agents …

Iodine reagents have been identified as economically and ecologically benign alternatives
to transition metals, although their application as molecular catalysts in challenging C H …

Two radical‐mediated processes of activated alkenes, namely arylphosphonylation and
arylazidation, are described. The difunctionalization of alkenes by a tandem process that …

Metal‐free and asymmetric: The first enantioselective diamination of styrenes simply
requires a chiral hypervalent iodine (III) reagent as an oxidant and bismesylimide as a …

Two highly stereoselective radical‐mediated syntheses of densely functionalized indanes
and dibenzocycloheptadienes from ortho‐vinyl‐and ortho‐vinylaryl‐substituted N …

Palladium catalysis has been instrumental in the development of the intramolecular
diamination of alkenes. Reagent combinations of a palladium catalyst and iodosobenzene …

A mild and efficient silver‐catalyzed acylarylation of activated alkenes with easily available α‐
oxocarboxylic acids has been developed. The reactions provide a rapid access to a variety …

A method for the synthesis of bi-and tricyclic amidines has been developed through copper-
catalyzed aerobic [3+ 2]-annulation reaction of N-alkenyl amidines. These cyclic amidines …

In this review the stereochemistry of palladium‐catalyzed addition of nucleophiles to alkenes
is discussed, and examples of these reactions in organic synthesis are given. Most of the …