Metal-catalysed cleavage of carbon-carbon bonds.

Audio, Transactions of the IRE Profession... 47(4):1100-5 (2011) PMID 20953480

Reactions cleaving carbon-carbon bonds with the assistance of transition metals as the catalyst have provided various molecular transformations that are otherwise difficult to execute, opening a scenic avenue along organic synthesis. Construction of structural motifs like medium-sized carbocycles and chiral quaternary carbon centres have been set within an access of such paradoxical approaches in the past decade.