Jingyang Qin

Isomerisation describes the transformation of one molecule into another which has identical chemical composition but a different arrangement of atoms and bonds.1 In organic chemistry, this is most commonly found in examples of positional and geometrical isomerisation of C=C bonds (Scheme 1a).

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Introduction Dienes are readily-available feedstocks which are ideal starting materials for fine-chemical synthesis.1 Their regioselective catalytic hydrofunctionalisation offers a potentially straight-forward, efficient route to a single product in a manner that cannot be matched by other approaches such as allylic hydrogen atom abstraction which face selectivity issues (Scheme 1a).2-5 The resulting products are versatile building blocks which contain a C=C bond in proximity to the newly...