Transition‐metal‐catalyzed cross‐coupling reactions are central to many organic synthesis
methodologies. Traditionally, Pd, Ni, Cu, and Fe catalysts are used to promote these …

Gold catalysis has emerged as an efficient tool in the field of synthetic organic chemistry.
Despite the significant progress, the need for high catalyst loadings has mainly hampered its …

We present an overview of fundamental catalytic reactions of nucleophiles with π-systems in
relation to gold chemistry. We present examples of reactions with gold-activated π-systems …

Bimetallic synergistic catalysis is one of the most effective and powerful strategies for the
synthesis of oxazolones, an important species in organic synthesis. In this work, the …

Intermolecular addition of enols and enolates to unactivated alkynes was proved to be a
simple and powerful method for carbon-carbon bond formation. Up to date, a catalytic …

Herein, a density functional theory (DFT) study was performed to investigate asymmetric
ketone hydrogenation (AKH) catalyzed by Mn complexes, from the catalytic mechanism to …

A series of well-defined phosphine-ligated diarylgold (III) complexes cis-[Au
(L)(ArF)(Ar′)(Cl)] were prepared, and detailed kinetics of the C (sp2)–C (sp2) reductive …

This work aims at understanding the mechanism and regioselectivity in ligand-controlled
gold-catalyzed divergent intramolecular hydroarylation of alkynes reported by Jiang et al.(J …

A density functional theory (DFT) study was performed to explore the possible reaction
mechanisms and the origin of stereoselectivity for the isothiourea-catalyzed [4+ 2] …

Density functional theory has been used for the systematic investigation of the mechanism
involved in Ni (COD) 2-catalyzed ipso-silylation of 2-methoxynaphthalene. The two …