“…Given the pioneering work of Toste8 and L. Zhang9 and the efforts of Liu,10 Shin,11 Davis,12 Gagosz,13 J. Zhang,14 Li,15 Asensio,16 Skrydstrup,17 Maulide,18 Hashmi,19 and our group,20 alkynes can be viewed as precursors of gold carbenoids. Various transformations such as insertion, cycloaddition, 1,2‐H shift, and ylide formation have been realized.…”