The conversion of vast low-value saturated hydrocarbons into valuable chemicals is of great interest. Thanks to the progression of organometallic and coordination chemistry, transition metal catalysed C sp3-H bond functionalisation has now become a powerful tool for alkane transformations. Specifically, methods for alkane functionalisation include radical initiated C-H functionalisation, carben...

Evidence is presented for a catabolic pathway of n-alkane oxidation which proceeds via subterminal oxidation rather than methyl group oxidation.

Treatment of thiol ester with bis(iodozincio)alkane in the presence of palladium catalyst followed by silylation affords Z-silyl enol ether chemo-, regio- and stereoselectively.