Chemists have developed a straightforward method to convert common chemicals like carboxylic acids, alcohols, and alkanes directly into valuable alkenes. Chemists from the National University of ...

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1,2-Dicarbofunctionalization of alkenes has emerged as an efficient synthetic strategy for preparing substituted molecules by coupling readily available alkenes with electrophiles and/or nucleophiles.

Over the years, hydrosilylation of terminal alkenes has emerged as one of the most prominent applications of homogeneous catalysis. While most of the relevant reports concern β-selective ...