This review summarizes synthetic developments reported from 1987 to 2019 that exploit C–
C single bond cleavage of cyclopropylamine-based systems. The synthetic and mechanistic …

Carbon monoxide is an indispensable C1 building block that has been recognized as a
potent feedstock for synthesizing carbonyl-containing molecules. Carbonylative reactions …

The palladium-catalyzed skeletal rearrangement of 3-arylcyclobutanones into 1-indanones
is reported. A Pd (0)/IMes catalyst allows for the cleavage of C (carbonyl)–C (sp3) and C …

Medium N‐heterocycles, azepines and azocines, serve as important skeletons that occurred
widely in natural products, however, due to the lack of efficient synthetic methodologies, their …

The synthesis of medium-sized lactams is a great challenge because of the unfavorable
transannular interactions and entropic barriers in the transition state. We have developed a …

Although computational contributions to the understanding of organometallic homogeneous
catalysts have become fairly routine, a step‐change in the application of computational …

Synthesis of bridged scaffolds via Type II cyclization constitutes substantial challenges due
to the intrinsic ring strain accumulated in reaction transition states. Catalytic enantioselective …

We report an oxidative ring‐opening strategy to transform cyclopropylamides and
cyclobutylamides into fluorinated imines. The imines can be isolated in their more stable …

Intramolecular nucleophilic aromatic substitution (Truce–Smiles rearrangement) of the
anions of 2‐benzyl benzanilides leads to triarylmethanes in an operationally simple manner …

Decarbonylative synthesis of thioethers from thioesters proceeds in the presence of a
catalytic amount of [Rh (cod) Cl] 2 (2 mol%). The protocol represents the first Rh-catalyzed …