%0 Journal Article
%T Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed intermolecular carbomagnesiation and carbozincation
%A Kei Murakami
%A Hideki Yorimitsu
%J Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
%D 2013
%I 
%R 10.3762/bjoc.9.34
%X Carbomagnesiation and carbozincation reactions are efficient and direct routes to prepare complex and stereodefined organomagnesium and organozinc reagents. However, carbon¨Ccarbon unsaturated bonds are generally unreactive toward organomagnesium and organozinc reagents. Thus, transition metals were employed to accomplish the carbometalation involving wide varieties of substrates and reagents. Recent advances of transition-metal-catalyzed carbomagnesiation and carbozincation reactions are reviewed in this article. The contents are separated into five sections: carbomagnesiation and carbozincation of (1) alkynes bearing an electron-withdrawing group; (2) alkynes bearing a directing group; (3) strained cyclopropenes; (4) unactivated alkynes or alkenes; and (5) substrates that have two carbon¨Ccarbon unsaturated bonds (allenes, dienes, enynes, or diynes).
%K alkene
%K alkyne
%K carbomagnesiation
%K carbometalation
%K carbozincation
%K transition metal
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.9.34