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Liddier O. Pérez, Tomás A. Dómina, Gabriela A. Fernández, Gustavo F. Silbestri and Sebastián A. Testero

RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 24643
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Stereoselective access to furan-fused [5.5.0] bicyclic heterocycles enabled by gold-catalyzed asymmetric [8 + 4] cycloaddition

Xunhua Wang, Jianhua Wang and Xiaoxun Li

Org. Chem. Front., 2025, 12, 159
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Consecutive chirality transfer: efficient synthesis of chiral C,O-chelated BINOL/gold(iii) complexes for asymmetric catalysis and chiral resolution of disubstituted BINOLs

Kwok-Heung Aries Chan, Wa-Yi O, Jia-Jun Jiang, Jian-Fang Cui and Man-Kin Wong

Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 16733
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Gold/silver-catalyzed synthesis of functionalized indoles from N-allyl-2-alkynylanilines and α-diazo compounds via 1,3-allyl migration

Deepika Thakur, Shivam A. Meena, Manvi Sharma and Akhilesh K. Verma

Chem. Commun., 2025, 61, 5313
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A Class of Chiral‐Bridged Biphenyl Monophosphine Ligands with Benzofuran Moiety and The Application in Diastereo‐ and Enantioselective Au(I)‐Catalyzed Cycloaddition

Xiaobo He, Bendu Pan, Yaqi Zhang, Bin Chen, Long Jiang and Liqin Qiu

Adv Synth Catal, 2024, 366, 3105
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Bifunctional Chiral ImPy‐Carbene Ligands. H‐Bonding Controlled Reactivity and Enantioselectivity in Au(I)‐Catalysis

Lukas Enders, Riccardo Mobili, Louis Fensterbank, Juho Helaja and Virginie Mouriès‐Mansuy

Chemistry A European J, 2025, 31
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Enantioselective and Regiodivergent Gold and Chiral Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Cycloisomerization/Diels–Alder Reaction of 1,10-Dien-4-yn-3-yl Acetates: Synthesis of Norbornene-Embedded Tricarbocycles

Andrés Felipe León Rojas, Ying Yan Chong, Sara Helen Kyne, Bo Xia and Philip Wai Hong Chan

Org. Lett., 2024, 26, 3037
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Insights into the Enantioselective Au(I)‐Catalyzed Reactions between 2‐Alkynyl Ketones and Naphthols using the TCDC Approach

Yunliang Yu, Meriem Daghmoum, Nazarii Sabat, Zhenhao Zhang, Gilles Frison, Angela Marinetti and Xavier Guinchard

Adv Synth Catal, 2024, 366, 2613
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Increasing the Donor Strength of Alkenylphosphines by Twisting the C=C Double Bond

Cheng‐Han Yu, Yu‐Wen Hsiao, Julian Löffler, Nicolas Kaiser, Bo‐Hong Huang, Chao‐Hsien Lee, Chen‐Hsun Hung, Jiun‐Shian Shen, Glenn P. A. Yap, Viktoria H. Gessner and Tiow‐Gan Ong

Angewandte Chemie, 2025, 137
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Asymmetric Gold-Catalyzed Alkyne Transformations for Synthesis of Axial, Helical, and Planar Chirality

Guan-Zhi Liu, Xin Nie and Long Li

Synthesis, 2025
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Au(I)‐Catalyzed Regiodivergent Hydroarylation of Allenes for the Synthesis of Tetrahydrodiazepines or Tetrahydrodiazonines

Pengyu Zhou, Pascal Retailleau, Vincent Gandon, Arnaud Voituriez and Xavier Guinchard

Adv Synth Catal, 2025, 367
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Recent Advances in Gold-Catalyzed Transformations of Vinyldiazo Reagents

Olaya Bernardo, Patricia García-Martínez, Javier Santamaría and Luis A. López

Synthesis, 2024, 56, 3728
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Enantioselective Au(I)-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization/Addition of Oxygen Nucleophiles to 2-Alkynylenones by the Tethered Counterion-Directed Catalysis Strategy

Hao Xu, Zhenhao Zhang, Angela Marinetti and Xavier Guinchard

Org. Lett., 2024, 26, 9525
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β-Cyclodextrin–NHC–Au(I)-Catalyzed Enantioconvergent 1,5-Enyne Cycloisomerizations

Mehdi Koohgard, Lukas Enders, Natalia del Rio, Hang Li, Fabio Moccia, Omar Khaled, Olivia Bistri, Juho Helaja, Matthieu Sollogoub, Virginie Mouriès-Mansuy and Louis Fensterbank

Org. Lett., 2024, 26, 5817
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Gold/HNTf2-Cocatalyzed Asymmetric Annulation of Diazo-Alkynes: Divergent Construction of Atropisomeric Biaryls and Arylquinones

Yi-Bo Wang, Wei Liu, Ting Li, Yazhu Lu, Yi-Tian Yu, Hai-Tao Liu, Meiwen Liu, Pengfei Li, Peng-Cheng Qian, Hao Tang, Jia Guan, Long-Wu Ye and Long Li

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, 146, 33804
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Tuning the Steric and Electronic Properties of Hemilabile NHC ligands for Gold(I/III) Catalyzed Oxyarylation of Ethylene: A Computational Study

Gaetano Galdi and Chiara Costabile

Chemistry A European J, 2024, 30
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Gold‐Catalyzed Alkyne‐Amine Cascade Annulations: A Modern Strategy for Azaheterocycle Construction

Alexey Yu. Dubovtsev

The Chemical Record, 2025, 25
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Gold- and Platinum-Catalyzed Prins-Type [2+2+2]-Cycloadditions: From Original Methods to Applications

Aurélien Dupeux, Alexis Truchon, Emilie Gentilini and Véronique Michelet

Synthesis, 2025
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Increasing the Donor Strength of Alkenylphosphines by Twisting the C=C Double Bond

Cheng‐Han Yu, Yu‐Wen Hsiao, Julian Löffler, Nicolas Kaiser, Bo‐Hong Huang, Chao‐Hsien Lee, Chen‐Hsun Hung, Jiun‐Shian Shen, Glenn P. A. Yap, Viktoria H. Gessner and Tiow‐Gan Ong

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2025, 64
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Chiral Imidazo[1,5-a]pyridine-Based Ligands for the Au-Catalyzed Enantioselective Intramolecular Hydrocarboxylation of Allenes

Chloé Stoll, Céline Besnard and Clément Mazet

JACS Au, 2025
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Gold(I)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Ring Expansions of Allenyl Cyclopropanols and Cyclobutanols

Kaylaa L. Gutman, Philip Kohnke and Liming Zhang

Org. Lett., 2025, 27, 7733
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Propargylic Alcohol as a Key Substrate Motif for Achieving Enantioselective Gold-Catalyzed Enyne Cycloisomerization

Yue Li, Xuan Wu, Kaylaa Gutman, Jielin Yang and Liming Zhang

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 27207
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Chiral N‐Alkylfluorenyl‐Substituted N‐Heterocyclic Carbenes in the Gold(I)‐Catalyzed Enantioselective Cycloisomerization of 1,6‐Enynes

Robin Heinrich, Giovany Marie‐Rose, Christophe Gourlaouen, Patrick Pale, Eric Brenner and Aurélien Blanc

Chemistry A European J, 2025, 31
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Synthesis and Electrochemical Study of Gold(I) Carbene Complexes

Andrea Rodríguez-Rubio, Álvaro Yuste, Tomás Torroba, Gabriel García-Herbosa and José V. Cuevas-Vicario

Molecules, 2024, 29, 4081
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