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New catalytic organometallic reactions that changed the strategy of organic synthesis

U. M. Dzhemilev, V. A. D'yakonov

N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract: The review integrates, for the first time, the results of studies carried out in the world over the last 15–20 years on the development and application of fundamental organometallic reactions catalyzed by transition metal complexes that give new carbon–carbon, metal–carbon, and heteroatom–carbon bonds and on the synthesis of small, medium, and large metallacarbocycles containing main group metals (Mg, Al, B). The review addresses data on the use of new organometallic reactions and metallacarbocycles for the preparation of practically important synthetic analogues of natural compounds, Z,Z-diene and Z,Z,Z-triene unsaturated carboxylic acids, acetogenins, lembehynes, regular isoprenoids, insect pheromones with a record high sterechemical purity, as well as toxins, heterocycles, and biaryls, the synthesis of which by other methods requires the use of expensive reagents or multistep procedures.
The bibliography includes 217 references.

Keywords: organometallic reactions, metallacarbocycles, metal complex catalysis, cycloalumination, cyclomagnesiation, cycloboration, unsaturated acids, acetogenins, lembehynes, alkenes, dienes, alkynes.

Received: 06.03.2025

DOI: 10.59761/RCR5172

 English version: Russian Chemical Reviews, 2025, 94:6, 1–24

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