“…Furthermore, Montgomery et al successfully implemented the catalytic system of nickel and silyl chloride in the cross-electrophile coupling of aliphatic aldehydes with unactivated alkyl halides, tosylates, and redox-active esters, as well as epoxides. 5,6 Ring opening of strained oxabicyclic alkenes has emerged as a powerful tool for the straightforward and stereoselective synthesis of 1,2-dihydronaphthalenes. The main advances in this field are constrained to the reactions using a nucleophile as the coupling partner, e.g., diverse organometallics, amines, alcohols, phenols, thiophenols, carboxylic acids, terminal alkynes, halides, and hydride.…”