Oxidative Cross-Coupling Reactions

1. Introduction1.1 What's oxidative coupling?1.2 Why oxidative coupling?1.3 How does oxidative coupling work?1.4 Development and outlook2. Organometals as Nucleophiles 2.1 Classification and applications of organometallic reagents2.2 Csp-M and Csp-M as nucleophiles2.3 Csp-M and Csp2-M as nucleophiles2.4 Csp-M and Csp3-M as nucleophiles2.5 Csp2-M and Csp2-M as nucleophiles2.6 Csp2-M and Csp3-M as nucleophiles2.7 Csp3-M and Csp3-M as nucleophiles3. Oxidative Couplings involving the Cleavage of C-H Bonds 3.1 Theoretical understanding and methods in C-H bond activation3.2 Oxidative coupling between organometals and hydrocarbons3.3 Oxidative coupling between two hydrocarbons4. Bonding including Heteroatoms via Oxidative Coupling4.1 Oxidative C-O bond formation4.2 Oxidative C-N bond formation4.3 Bonding between carbon and other heteroatoms4.4 Bonding between two heteroatoms5. Oxidative Radical Couplings 5.1 Mechanistic studies5.2 Radical couplings5.3 Application of radical oxidative couplings in polymerizations

Aiwen Lei is a professor of organic chemistry at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences and the executive director of the Institute of Green Catalysis at Wuhan University, China. After obtaining his PhD in 2000 under the supervision of Prof. Xiyan Lu, he went to Pennsylvania State University and then to Stanford University for post-doctoral research. In 2005 he was appointed professor at Wuhan University. Aiwen Lei has received the Chinese Chemistry Society - John Wiley Young Chemist Award (2008), the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in China (2010) and the Eli Lilly Scientific Excellence Award in Chemistry in 2011.Wei Shi is an associate professor at the Huazhong Agricultural University (Wuhan, China) since 2011. He obtained his PhD at Wuhan University under the supervision of Prof. Aiwen Lei. His research interest is focused on the chemistry of alkynes and their derivatives.Chao Liu is a professor at Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, China. He received his PhD in 2012 from the Wuhan University, China, under the supervision of Prof. Aiwen Lei. From October 2008 to October 2009 he was an exchange PhD student at Durham University, UK, in the group of Prof. Todd B. Marder. His research is focused on oxo-synthesis and selective oxidation.Wei Liu is an associate professor at the College of Food Science and Technology, Henan University of Technology (Zhengzhou, China). He obtained his PhD from the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, China, in the group of Prof. Aiwen Lei in 2010. His research interest focuses on the green organic synthesis and catalytical biomass transformation.Hua Zhang is a professor at Nanchang University, China. He obtained his PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Aiwen Lei at Wuhan University in 2013. After that, he spent two years as a JSPS postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Kenichiro Itami?s lab at Nagoya University, Japan. His current research is