En Route to Intermolecular Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling Reactions

Cross-coupling reaction between two C-H bonds has become a fundamental strategy in synthetic organic chemistry. With its increasing importance in green chemistry, atom economy, and step economy, its development has sky-rocketed within the last 20 years, with the term "cross-dehydrogenative coupling (CDC)" popularized and progressed by the group of Li and others to describe direct Y-Z bond formations from Y-H and Z-H bonds under oxidative...