The discovery of ferrocene,[Fe (η5-C5H5) 2], seventy years ago has significantly influenced
chemical research and provided a key impetus for establishing and rapidly expanding …

Palladium-catalyzed aerobic oxidation reactions have been the focus of industrial
application and extensive research efforts for nearly 60 years. A significant transition …

The appearance of ferrocene in the middle of the 20th century has revolutionized
organometallic chemistry and is now providing applications in areas as varied and …

Method B 692 3.7. Selective Trifluoromethylation of Multi-Functional Substrates 693 3.8.
Enantioselective Trifluoromethylation 695 3.8. 1. Aldehydes and Ketones: With Cinchona …

Redox-active self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) provide an excellent platform for
investigating electron transfer kinetics. Using a well-defined bridge, a redox center can be …

Chiral tertiary alcohols are important building blocks for the synthesis of pharmaceutical
agents and biologically active natural products. The addition of carbon nucleophiles to …

Despite the impressive progress achieved in asymmetric catalysis during the last decade, an
increasing number of new catalysts, ligands, and applications are reported every year to …

Catalytic asymmetric CC bond-forming reactions using organometallic reagents are among
the most important of organic transformations. 1 Frequently, these transformations are key …

The preparation of new enantiopure ligands that provide a chiral environment to metals so
that they perform efficient asymmetric catalysis is one of the most straightforward challenges …

In recent years, N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) have proved to be a versatile class of
spectator ligands in homogeneous catalysis. Being robust anchoring functions for late …