Alkenes and their derivatives are featured widely in a variety of natural products,
pharmaceuticals, and advanced materials. Significant efforts have been made toward the …

During the past decades, synthetic organic chemistry discovered that directing group
assisted C–H activation is a key tool for the expedient and siteselective construction of C–C …

In industries and academic laboratories, several late transition metal-catalyzed prerequisite
reactions are widely performed during single and multistep synthesis. However, besides the …

C–H activation has surfaced as an increasingly powerful tool for molecular sciences, with
notable applications to material sciences, crop protection, drug discovery, and …

The present review is devoted to summarizing the recent advances (2015–2017) in the field
of metal-catalysed group-directed C–H functionalisation. In order to clearly showcase the …

The selective and efficient C–H methylation of sp2 and sp3 carbon centres has become a
powerful transformation in the synthetic toolbox. Due to the potential for profound changes to …

Catalytic C–H bond activation, which was an elusive subject of chemical research until the
1990s, has now become a standard synthetic method for the formation of new C–C and C …

Olefinic C–H functionalization represents an atom-and step economic approach to valuable
olefin derivatives from simpler ones, but controlling the selectivity remains a challenge …

Conspectus To improve the resource economy of molecular syntheses, researchers have
developed strategies to directly activate otherwise inert C–H bonds, thus avoiding …

Iron-catalyzed C–H activation has recently emerged as an increasingly powerful tool for the
step-economical transformation of unreactive C–H bonds. Particularly, the recent …