Recent Advances in the Oxidative Coupling Reaction of Enol Derivatives

Oxidative coupling reaction of enol derivatives (enolates, enol silanes, enamines, etc.) provides an efficient method for the direct construction of carbon-carbon bond, which plays a prominent role in the field of synthetic chemistry. Although the first case of this reaction had been reported in 1935, it was not until the 1970s that chemists began to pay more attention to this reaction. However, the effectiveness and practicability of this reaction were still somewhat limited at that time. In recent years, this reaction has been developed rapidly in the field of synthetic methodology and the total synthesis of natural products. Therefore, these advances in methodologies and its applications in the total synthesis of natural products in the last decades are mainly summarized.