The Addition-Reactions of Unsaturated Carbon-Carbon Bonds in Catalysis

Dear Colleagues,

The addition of H-E (E = O, N, Si, P, S, Se) bond to unsaturated compounds is undoubtedly the most simple, efficient, atom economical way to create compounds with C-E bonds. I was asked to serve as a Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the Journal dedicated to an extremely wide theme of the addition of the compounds with H-E bonds to unsaturated carbon-carbon bonds. This topic includes two main aspects: 1) the addition to activated alkenes with the key problem of enantioselectivity of the process; 2) the addiiton to non-activated alkenes, alkynes, allenes, and dienes with the key problem of regioselectivity of the reaction. For me personally this theme is very important because in the area of metal-catalyzed reactions substitution rather than addiiton prevails. The latter covers mainly hydrogenation processes. However, in 2020 we celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Markovnikov rule, and the selective formation of both isomers, Markovnikov and anti-Markovnikov, in the addition reactions remains a vivid task of the catalysis. I invite everybody interested in this problem to contribute their materials to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Irina Petrovna Beletskaya
Guest Editor

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• addition reactions
• catalysis
• regioselectivity
• stereoselectivity
• electrophilic addition
• nucleophilic addition
• radical addition
• alkenes
• alkynes
• dienes
• allenes
• hydroamination
• hydrothiolation
• hydrophosphorylation