Transition Metal-Catalyzed Oxidative Coupling Involving Two Organometallic Compounds

Abstract

With the great development of classical coupling reactions involving organic halides as electrophiles and organometallic compounds as nucleophiles, transition metal-catalyzed oxidative coupling reactions involving two organometallic compounds in the presence of oxidants have emerged as alternative and efficient methods toward carbon–carbon bond formation in the past decades. Various organometallic compounds were employed as substrates in oxidative coupling catalyzed by transition metal catalysts. This chapter is structured by the different oxidants as well as homo-coupling and cross-coupling.