A 2 : 1 mixture of NCS and Ph(3)P successfully promoted the anti-dichlorination of olefins to provide corresponding dichlorides, serving as a molecular chlorine surrogate generated in situ.

This Communication describes a highly efficient phosphine-catalyzed [2+3]-cycloaddition reaction using alpha-trimethylsilyl-substituted aryl allenones and electron deficient olefins; both good yields and good asymmetric induction were obtained.

Carbonyl compounds react with organozinc reagents in the presence of diphenyl phosphite to give the corresponding olefins. A variety of 1,3-dienes and unsaturated esters were obtained in moderate to excellent yields under mild conditions.

The catalytic decarbonylation reaction of aliphatic carboxylic acids can be carried out in the presence of an iron complex, and it proceeds smoothly to give α-olefins with high selectivity.

Molybdenum imido adamantylidene complexes with different substituents on the ligand (dipp=2,6-diisopropylphenyl, ArF5=C6F5, and tBu) having distinct electron donating abilities were investigated for metathesis of internal terminal olefins, both molecular silica-supported species using standardized protocols. Here we show that surface immobilization these compounds results in dramatically increa...

Simple, highly modular primary amino acid derivatives catalyze the direct enantioselective addition of ketones to nitro-olefins with high stereocontrol and furnish the corresponding aldol products in high yield with up to >38 1 dr and up to 99% ee.

Mild methods to assemble well-ordered organic monolayers of olefins on Si(111) using 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxy and to pattern these monolayers on the micrometer-size scale using soft lithography are reported.

High enantioselectivities and activities are achieved in the Ir-catalyzed hydrogenation of several unfunctionalized olefins using modular biaryl phosphite-oxazoline ligands from hydroxyl aminoacid derivatives; the presence of a biaryl phosphite group is crucial to this success.

The rhodium-catalyzed oxidative alkenylation of N-benzyltriflamides with olefins followed by an intramolecular cyclization via C-H bond activation is described. This method results in the direct and efficient synthesis of highly substituted isoindoline frameworks.