Jingjie Li, Li-Li Shi, Jiahua Chen, Jianxian Gong, Zhen Yang*
Synthesis, 2014, 46, 2007
Thioureas are air and moisture stable, and they can coordinate to various metal centers, making their derivatives versatile ligands for transition-metal-catalyzed reactions. This account provides an overview of recent developments in the use of thioureas as ligands in organometallic-catalyzed reactions, with particular emphasis on their application to the total synthesis of natural products.
