title: Silver & gold-catalyzed routes to furans and benzofurans.
abstract: Silver and gold have become incredibly versatile and mild catalysts for numerous transformations, especially in heterocycle synthesis. For the most prominent of them, i.e. furans, silver and gold, with their unique reactivity and mildness, allow numerous possible routes to highly substituted and/or functionalized furans from a large variety of starting materials. Silver and gold catalysis provide thus the most flexible way to this important family of compounds. The present review describes these silver and gold-catalyzed routes, with some emphasis on mechanistic aspects, and proposes a comparison of both the silver and the gold-catalyzed syntheses of furans.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Synthèse, Réactivité Organiques et Catalyse, Institut de Chimie (UMR CNRS 7177), Université de Strasbourg, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg, France. ppale@unistra.fr.
authors.forename: Aurélien
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4240-3281
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Blanc
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Synthèse, Réactivité Organiques et Catalyse, Institut de Chimie (UMR CNRS 7177), Université de Strasbourg, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg, France. ppale@unistra.fr.
authors.forename: Valérie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bénéteau
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Synthèse, Réactivité Organiques et Catalyse, Institut de Chimie (UMR CNRS 7177), Université de Strasbourg, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg, France. ppale@unistra.fr.
authors.forename: Jean-Marc
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Weibel
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Synthèse, Réactivité Organiques et Catalyse, Institut de Chimie (UMR CNRS 7177), Université de Strasbourg, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg, France. ppale@unistra.fr.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pale