A straightforward approach to robust thiazolylidene gold complexes: efficient catalysts for propargylamide cycloisomerizations

Savvas G. Chalkidis, Nikolaos Tsoureas, Steven P. Nolan and Georgios C. Vougioukalakis

Dalton Trans., 2025, 54, 14659
DOI: 10.1039/D5DT02258D

Hydrogen bonding-enabled gold catalysis: ligand effects in gold-catalyzed cycloisomerization of 1,6-enynes in hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP)

Yuan Zhao, Xinyuan Ma, Junying Wang, Vladislav A. Voloshkin and Steven P. Nolan

Chem. Commun., 2026, 62, 2664
DOI: 10.1039/D5CC07022H

Expanded ring 1,3,5-oxadiazinan-4-ylidene complexes: synthesis and catalysis

Dilshodakhon K. Isaeva, Maxim A. Topchiy, Egor A. Drokin, Mariya A. Rasskazova, Lidiya I. Minaeva, Alexander F. Smol’yakov and Andrey F. Asachenko

New J. Chem., 2025, 49, 20073
DOI: 10.1039/D5NJ03879K

Beyond ring strain: Au–H hydrogen bonding dictates chemo-selectivity in gold-catalyzed C(sp3)–H insertions to cyclobutanones and cyclopentanones

Yunhe Li, Rui Jin, Jinmei Qian, Ke Chu and Ruiyu Liu

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2025, 15, 6766
DOI: 10.1039/D5CY01053E

Hidden in plain sight: commonly used copper N-heterocyclic carbene catalysts gain stabilization from anagostic Cu⋯H–C interactions

Connly Yan, Tieyan Chang, Yu-Sheng Chen, Alexander L. Paterson, Dan McElheny and Neal P. Mankad

Chem. Sci., 2026, 17, 4734
DOI: 10.1039/D5SC09643J

Metal–N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes in Buchwald–Hartwig Amination Reactions

Sourav Sekhar Bera, Greta Utecht-Jarzyńska, Shiyi Yang, Steven P. Nolan and Michal Szostak

Chem. Rev., 2025, 125, 5349
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00088

A Well‐Defined Pd‐NHC Pre‐Catalyst for the Borylation of Aryl Chlorides

Gianluca Carì, Leandros P. Zorba, Mathieu B. Plumereau, Marcel Matas, Tommaso Ruggiero, Kristof Van Hecke, Matthieu Jouffroy, Catherine S. J. Cazin and Steven P. Nolan

ChemCatChem, 2025, 17
DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202500267

General method for carbon–heteroatom cross-coupling reactions via semiheterogeneous red-light metallaphotocatalysis

Geyang Song, Wei Zhang, Jiameng Song, Qi Li, Yuyu Feng, Hongyu Liang, Tengfei Kang, Jianyang Dong, Gang Li, Juan Fan, Xue-Peng Zhang, Quan Gu, Chao Wang and Dong Xue

Nat Commun, 2025, 16
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61812-z

Challenges in olefin metathesis: past, present and future

Artur Brotons-Rufes, Sergio Posada-Pérez, Juan Pablo Martínez, Steven P. Nolan and Albert Poater

Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2025, 542, 216827
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2025.216827

Well‐Defined [Pd(NHC)(η3‐methylnaphthyl)Br] Complexes in Cross‐Coupling Reactions

Gianluca Carì, Riku Saito, Leandros P. Zorba, Tommaso Ruggiero, Kristof Van Hecke, Catherine S. J. Cazin and Steven P. Nolan

Chemistry A European J, 2025, 31
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202501967

The Activation of the Precatalyst Au–Cl Bond in the Cycloisomerization of Propargylamides: The Role of Hydrogen Bonding

Leandros P. Zorba, Riku Saito, Sayan Dutta, Savvas G. Chalkidis, Georgios C. Vougioukalakis, Luigi Cavallo and Steven P. Nolan

Eur J Org Chem, 2026, 29
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202501109

Group 10 and Group 11 Metal Complexes of a Thermally Stable N‐Heterocyclic Carbene with a 1,1′‐Ferrocenylene Backbone

Johanna Mellin, Clemens Bruhn, Igor V. Esarev, Ingo Ott and Ulrich Siemeling

Zeitschrift anorg allge chemie, 2025, 651
DOI: 10.1002/zaac.202500124

Rhodium-Catalyzed Chemo-Divergent Reaction between Oxetan-3-ones/Azetidin-3-ones and Arylboronic Acids

Jiayi Shen, Ganchun Wu, Zhi Wang, Zeyuan Fu and Liangbin Huang

J. Org. Chem., 2025, 90, 17190
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.5c02156

EtIDip (EtIPr)—Synthesis, Characterisation and Reactivity of a Robust, Backbone-Modified N-Heterocyclic Carbene and Group 13 Element Complexes

Huanhuan Dong, Albert Martinez-Segura, Riley W. Kelehan, Connor Bourne, Aidan P. McKay, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, David B. Cordes and Andreas Stasch

Inorganics, 2025, 13, 27
DOI: 10.3390/inorganics13010027

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes as Game-Changing Ligands: Advances in Catalysis, Photocatalysis, and Medicinal Applications

Thomas Scattolin, Vladislav A. Voloshkin, Leandros P. Zorba and Steven P. Nolan

Synlett, 2025, 36, 3194
DOI: 10.1055/a-2669-6134

⁠Reversible C─H Insertion in Bulky Unsaturated NHCs: A Carbon‐Based Analogue of Oxidative Addition/Reductive Elimination

Adrián Sánchez, Alexander Cárdenas‐Acero, Eleuterio Álvarez, Iker del Rosal, Javier Navarro‐Ruiz, Romuald Poteau, Juan Cámpora, Edwin A. Baquero and Luis M. Martínez‐Prieto

Chemistry A European J, 2025, 31
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202502968

The Genuine Carbene Conundrum

Bethany Sawyer, Jesse. L. Peltier and Rodolphe Jazzar

Chemistry A European J, 2025, 31
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202501600

The Suzuki–Miyaura coupling of aryl chlorides with arylboronic acids catalysed by NHC platinum complexes

Anna Smoczyńska, Sylwia Ostrowska, Anna Chojnacka, Steven P. Nolan and Cezary Pietraszuk

Journal of Catalysis, 2026, 453, 116452
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2025.116452

Contrasting Solution and Gas‐Phase: Understanding Structure and Reactivity of Gold‐Diazenyl Intermediates

Florian Ruepp, Jaya Mehara, Paul White, Aleksandr Y. Pereverzev and Jana Roithová

Helvetica Chimica Acta, 2025, 108
DOI: 10.1002/hlca.202500057

Axial Ligand Engineering of Silver Single-Atom Catalysts with N-Heterocyclic Carbenes Unlocks Efficient Photocatalytic H2O2 Production

Cong Fu, Yachao Wang, Liangsheng Xu, Quan Shui, Qun Zhang, Rui Zhong, Zhiyi Sun, Wenxing Chen, Yaxiong Wei, Huan Liu, Guofeng Zhao and Yadong Li

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2026, 148, 280
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c11886

Simplified Protocol Conditions for the Gold-Catalyzed Hydrofluorination of Terminal Aliphatic Alkynes

Raphaël Pronovost, Claudia Gagnon, Nikolaos V. Tzouras, Steven P. Nolan and Jean-François Paquin

J. Org. Chem., 2026, 91, 815
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.5c02743