This Review summarizes the advances in fluorination via C(sp 2)-H and C(sp 3)-H activation. Transition metal catalyzed approaches championed by palladium have allowed the installation of a fluorine substituent at C(sp 2) and C(sp 3) sites exploiting the reactivity of high oxidation transition metal fluoride complexes combined with the use of directing group (some transient) to control regio-and stereoselectivity. The large majority of known methods employ electrophilic fluorination reagents, but methods combining a nucleophilic fluoride source with an oxidant have appeared. A number of ligands have proven to be effective for C(sp 3)-H fluorination directed by weakly coordinating auxiliaries, thereby enabling control over reactivity and selectivity. Methods relying on the formation of radical intermediates are complementary to transition metal catalyzed processes as they allow for undirected C(sp 3)-H fluorination. To date, radical C-H fluorinations mainly employ electrophilic N-F fluorination reagents but a unique bio-inspired Mn(III)-catalyzed oxidative C-H fluorination has been developed. Overall, the field of late stage nucleophilic C-H fluorination has progressed much more slowly, a state of play explaining why C-H 18 F-fluorination is still in its infancy. C-F reductive elimination C(sp 2)-H C(sp 3)-H C(sp 3)-H

The first examples of amphiphilic reactivity in the context of enantioselective catalysis are described. Commercially available π-allyliridium C,O-benzoates, which are stable to air, water and SiO chromatography, and are well-known to catalyze allyl acetate-mediated carbonyl allylation, are now shown to catalyze highly chemo-, regio- and enantioselective substitutions of branched allylic acetates bearing linear alkyl groups with primary amines.

An atom-economical methodology to access substituted acyl-cyclohexenes from pentamethylacetophenone and 1,5-diols is described. This process is catalyzed by an iridium­(I) catalyst in conjunction with a bulky electron rich phosphine ligand (CataCXium A) which favors acceptorless dehydrogenation over conjugate reduction to the corresponding cyclohexane. The reaction produces water and hydrogen gas as the sole byproducts and a wide range of functionalized acyl-cyclohexene products can be synthesized using this method in very high yields. A series of control experiments were carried out, which revealed that the process is initiated by acceptorless dehydrogenation of the diol followed by a redox-neutral cascade process, which is independent of the iridium catalyst. Deuterium labeling studies established that the key step of this cascade involves a novel base-mediated [1,5]-hydride shift. The cyclohexenyl ketone products could readily be cleaved under mildly acidic conditions to access a range of valuable substituted cyclohexene derivatives.

This Review summarizes the advances in fluorination via C(sp 2)-H and C(sp 3)-H activation. Transition metal catalyzed approaches championed by palladium have allowed the installation of a fluorine substituent at C(sp 2) and C(sp 3) sites exploiting the reactivity of high oxidation transition metal fluoride complexes combined with the use of directing group (some transient) to control regio-and stereoselectivity. The large majority of known methods employ electrophilic fluorination reagents, but methods combining a nucleophilic fluoride source with an oxidant have appeared. A number of ligands have proven to be effective for C(sp 3)-H fluorination directed by weakly coordinating auxiliaries, thereby enabling control over reactivity and selectivity. Methods relying on the formation of radical intermediates are complementary to transition metal catalyzed processes as they allow for undirected C(sp 3)-H fluorination. To date, radical C-H fluorinations mainly employ electrophilic N-F fluorination reagents but a unique bio-inspired Mn(III)-catalyzed oxidative C-H fluorination has been developed. Overall, the field of late stage nucleophilic C-H fluorination has progressed much more slowly, a state of play explaining why C-H 18 F-fluorination is still in its infancy. C-F reductive elimination C(sp 2)-H C(sp 3)-H C(sp 3)-H