s, or keywords if they used Heck-type chemistry in their syntheses, because it became one of basic tools of organic preparations, a natural way to

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The heck reaction as a sharpening stone of palladium catalysis.

Catalytic dehydrogenative cross-coupling: forming carbon-carbon bonds by oxidizing two carbon-hydrogen bonds

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Aryl-aryl bond formation one century after the discovery of the Ullmann reaction.

The biaryl structural motif is a predominant feature in many pharmaceutically relevant and biologically active compounds. As a result, for over a century 1 organic chemists have sought to develop new and more efficient aryl -aryl bond-forming methods. Although there exist a variety of routes for the construction of aryl -aryl bonds, arguably the most common method is through the use of transition-metalmediated reactions. 2-4 While earlier reports focused on the use of stoichiometric quantities of a transition metal to carry out the desired transformation, modern methods of transitionmetal-catalyzed aryl -aryl coupling have focused on the development of high-yielding reactions achieved with excellent selectivity and high functional group tolerance under mild reaction conditions. Typically, these reactions involve either the coupling of an aryl halide or pseudohalide with an organometallic reagent (Scheme 1), or the homocoupling of two aryl halides or two organometallic reagents. Although a number of improvements have developed the former process into an industrially very useful and attractive method for the construction of aryl -aryl bonds, the need still exists for more efficient routes whereby the same outcome is accomplished, but with reduced waste and in fewer steps. In particular, the obligation to use coupling partners that are both activated is wasteful since it necessitates the installation and then subsequent disposal of stoichiometric activating agents. Furthermore, preparation of preactivated aryl substrates often requires several steps, which in itself can be a time-consuming and economically inefficient process.

http://aether.cmi.ua.ac.be/artikels/Artikels%20Gitte/Artikels/Reviews/Heck-Type-lautens.pdf

Aryl-aryl bond formation by transition-metal-catalyzed direct arylation.

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Late Transition Metal Catalysis

II.2.1. Homogeneous Systems 2166 II.2.2. Heterogeneous Systems 2168 II.3. Hydride Transfer Reduction 2169 II.3.1. Homogeneous Systems 2169 II.3.2. Heterogeneous Systems 2171 II.4. Hydrosilylation 2172 III. C−O Bond Formation 2173 III.1. Epoxidation of Unfunctionalized Olefins 2173 III.1.1. Homogeneous Catalysis 2173 III.1.2. Heterogeneous System 2176 III.2. Dihydroxylation of Olefins 2178 III.2.1. Homogeneous Systems 2178 III.2.2. Heterogeneous System 2178 III.3. Ring Opening of Meso Epoxides 2180 III.4. Kinetic Resolution 2180 III.4.1. Terminal Epoxides 2180 III.4.2. Secondary Alcohols 2181 IV. C−H Bond Oxidation 2181 IV.1. Allylic and Benzylic Oxidation 2181 IV.2. Baeyer−Villiger-type Reaction 2181 IV.3. Wacker-type Cyclization 2182 V. S−O Bond Formation 2182 VI. C−N Bond Formation 2183 VI.1. Hydroboration/Amination 2183 VI.2. Enolate Amination 2183 VI.3. Aza-Claisen Rearrangement 2183 VI.4. Azide Synthesis 2184 VI.5. Aminohydroxylation 2184 VI.6. Aziridine Synthesis 2184 VI.7. C−N Bond Formation via S−N Bond Formation 2185

Nitrogen-containing ligands for asymmetric homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis.

Chiral sulfur ligands for asymmetric catalysis.

Alkyldibenzothiophenes Hydrodesulfurization-Promoter Effect, Reactivity, and Reaction Mechanism

The catalysed enantioselective formation of carbon–nitrogen bonds by the hydroamination reaction is reviewed. All examples deal with substrates containing non-activated carbon–carbon multiple bonds which are transformed either via intramolecular or intermolecular reactions. Structurally different complexes already provided nitrogen containing compounds/heterocycles with high enantioselectivities.

Emmanuelle Schulz

Papers

Aryl-aryl bond formation one century after the discovery of the Ullmann reaction.

Nitrogen-containing ligands for asymmetric homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis.

Chiral sulfur ligands for asymmetric catalysis.

Alkyldibenzothiophenes Hydrodesulfurization-Promoter Effect, Reactivity, and Reaction Mechanism

Asymmetric hydroamination of non-activated carbon-carbon multiple bonds.