Transition-metal-catalyzed additions of the OÀH groups of water and alcohols across substrates with carbon–carbon multiple bonds could provide ethers and alcohols under mild conditions, with the potential for regio and enantiocontrol, and without the by-products of substitution chemistry.[1] However, such metal-catalyzed reactions have been difficult to develop, despite recent advances in the addition of CÀH [2–5] and NÀH [6–8] groups to ...
