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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2014 Dec 18;516(7531):343–348. doi: 10.1038/nature14006

Figure 5. Functionalized olefin cross-coupling reverses conventional reactivity expectations.

Figure 5

The substrates employed as donors in this study typically are electrophilic at the position adjacent to the heteroatom. Functionalized olefin cross-coupling reverses this reactivity via the intermediacy of radicals, resulting in those same positions bearing nucleophilic properties.