Gold catalyzed [2+2]

Antonio Echavarren and co-workers from ICIQ in Spain have reported in Org Lett on a gold catalyzed intramolecular [2+2] between an alkene and alkyne.

OL paper

Alkynoates and allylic ethers

Young Ho Rhee and co-workers from Pohang University of Science and Technology have reported in Org Lett on a gold catalyzed coupling of an alkynoate and allylic ether.

OL paper

Imino-Nazarov reaction

Richard Hsung and co-workers published in Org Lett on an imino Nazarov reaction catalyzed by gold and silver.

OL paper

[2+2] by cationic gold

Jose Gonzalez and co-workers from the University of Oviedo have reported in ACIE on a cationic gold catalyzed [2+2] reaction.

ACIE paper

Oxazole synthesis intermolecularly

Liming Zhang and co-workers at UCSB have reported in JACS on an approach to access oxazoles through an intermolecular coupling between an amide and an alkyne.  This method uses gold and is good because many ways to make oxazoles intramolecularly are known but not intermolecularly.

JACS paper

Biaryl synthesis

Christopher Russell and colleagues at the University of Bristol have reported in Science on a gold catalyzed C-H activation approach for biaryl synthesis.

Science paper

Quinocarcin synthesis

Hiroaki Ohno and co-workers from Kyoto University have reported in ACIE on the synthesis of quinocarcin.

ACIE paper

Gold cascade cyclization

Antonio Echavarran and co-worker at ICIQ in Spain have reported in Synlett on a gold catalyzed cyclization of an enynone.

Synlett paper

Allyl transfer with gold

Daesung Lee and co-workers at the University of Illinois in Chicago have reported in Organic Letters on a gold catalyzed formation of cyclopentenes from enynes.

OL paper

Enyne cross metathesis

Seunghoon Shin and co-workers at Hanyang University have reported in JACS on a gold catalyzed enyne cross metathesis between propiolic acids and alkenes.

JACS paper