Three-and four-membered rings, widespread motifs in nature and medicinal chemistry, have
fascinated chemists ever since their discovery. However, due to energetic considerations …

For centuries, gold had been considered a precious, purely decorative inert metal. It was not
until 1986 that Ito and Hayashi described the first application of gold (I) in homogeneous …

Catalysis by gold has rapidly become a hot topic in chemistry, with a new discovery being
made almost every week. Gold is equally effective as a heterogeneous or a homogeneous …

Gold has accompanied mankind from the very early days; no name of a chemist is
associated with the discovery of the element gold. It is probably the only chemical element …

The ability of platinum and gold catalysts to effect powerful atom‐economic transformations
has led to a marked increase in their utilization. The quite remarkable correlation of their …

Organic syntheses are composed of two main types of reactions: Carbon-carbon bond
formations and functional group transformations. CC bond formation is the essence of …

Gold salts and complexes have emerged in the past few years as the most powerful
catalysts for electrophilic activation of alkynes toward a variety of nucleophiles under …

This critical review intends to familiarize the reader with the essence of π-acid catalysis, in
particular with reactions or reaction cascades effected by gold and platinum complexes …

Over the last two decades, electrophilic catalysis relying on platinum (II), gold (I), and gold
(III) salts has emerged as a remarkable synthetic methodology. Chemists have discovered a …

Metal‐catalyzed cycloisomerization reactions of 1, n‐enynes have appeared as
conceptually and chemically highly attractive processes as they contribute to the highly …