Inventing Reactions

-Barry Trost: Transition metal catalyzed allylic alkylation. - Jeffrey W. Bode: Reinventing Amide Bond Formation. - Naoto Chatani and Mamoru Tobisu: Catalytic Transformations Involving the Cleavage of C-OMe Bonds. - Gregory L. Beutner and Scott E. Denmark: The Interplay of Invention, Observation and Discovery in the Development of Lewis Base Activation of Lewis Acids for Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis. - David R. Stuart and Keith Fagnou: The Discovery and Development of a Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Oxidative Cross-Coupling of Two Unactivated Arenes. - Lukas Gooßen and Käthe Gooßen: Decarboxylative Cross-Coupling Reactions. - A. Stephen K. Hashmi: Gold-Catalyzed Organic Reactions. - Ben List: Developing Catalytic Asymmetric Acetalizations. - Steven M. Bischof, Brian G. Hashiguchi, Michael M. Konnick, and Roy A. Periana: The De NovoDesign of CH Bond Hydroxylation Catalysts. - Benoit Cardinal-David, Karl A. Scheidt: Carbene Catalysis: Beyond the Benzoin and Stetter Reactions. - Kenso Soai and Tsuneomi Kawasaki: Asymmetric autocatalysis of pyrimidyl alkanol. - Douglas C. Behenna and Brian M. Stoltz: Natural Products as Inspiration for Reaction Development: Catalytic Enantioselective Decarboxylative Reactions of Prochiral Enolate Equivalents. Hisashi Yamamoto: Acid Catalysis in Organic Synthesis.