From the start of a synthetic chemist's training, experiments are conducted based on recipes
from textbooks and manuscripts that achieve clean reaction outcomes, allowing the scientist …

Conspectus Transition-metal-catalyzed reductive coupling of electrophiles has emerged as
a powerful tool for the construction of molecules. While major achievements have been …

Conspectus Transition-metal catalyzed cross-coupling reactions are fundamental reactions
in organic chemistry, facilitating strategic bond formations for accessing natural products …

Mechanistic investigations of the Ni-catalyzed asymmetric reductive alkenylation of N-
hydroxyphthalimide (NHP) esters and benzylic chlorides are reported. Investigations of the …

Polypyridine-ligated nickel complexes are widely used as privileged catalysts in a variety of
cross-coupling reactions. The rapid adoption of these complexes is tentatively attributed to …

Disproportionation and comproportionation reactions have become increasingly important
electron transfer events in organometallic chemistry and catalysis. The renewed interest in …

Key similarities and differences of Pd and Ni in catalytic systems are discussed. Overall, Ni
and Pd catalyze a vast number of similar C–C and C–heteroatom bond-forming reactions …

1, 2-Dicarbofunctionalization of alkenes has emerged as an efficient synthetic strategy for
preparing substituted molecules by coupling readily available alkenes with electrophiles …

Nickel-catalyzed reductive cross-coupling reactions have emerged as powerful methods to
join two electrophiles. These reactions have proven particularly useful for the coupling of sec …

While the oxidative addition of Ni (I) to aryl iodides has been commonly proposed in catalytic
methods, an in-depth mechanistic understanding of this fundamental process is still lacking …