Catalyst-Controlled Highly Selective Coupling and Oxygenation of Olefins: A Direct Approach to Alcohols, Ketones, and Diketones

摘要

Radical reactions play a very important role in many areas of organic chemistry and polymer chemistry. In the past decades, the development of a catalytic system to initiate radical intermediates under mild conditions and to make radical reactions more controllable have been of continuous interest. Among them, transition-metal catalysis has proven to be one of the most highly efficient strategies. Moreover, owing to their low cost, availability, stability, and environmentally friendly nature, copper and iron catalysts have been extensively investigated in radical reactions, and present an attractive prospect for organic synthesis.