“…[2] Since the first PK reactions were described in the early 1970s as involving heating stoichiometric amounts of dicobaltoctacarbonyl, alkyne, and alkene, [3] huge progress has been made. Among the key advances in this reaction, those worthy of notice are the discovery of efficient promoters that allow the process to be performed under mild conditions (for instance, tertiary amine N-oxides, [4] secondary amines, [5] thioethers, [6] silica gel, [7] and molecular sieves [8] ), the development of catalytic cobalt procedures, [9] the extension of the reaction to other metal mediators, such as rhodium, [10] ruthenium, [11] titanium [12] and iridium, [13] the application of the reaction to the synthesis of complex natural products, [2,14] the deep theoretical study of the mechanistic aspects of the reaction, [15] and the development of highly efficient diastereoselective and asymmetric versions of PK reactions. [16] Despite this impressive progress, however, some important limitations still remain.…”