ABSTRACT

Rhodium is a black powder or silver-colored solid that has been used extensively in C-H bond activation. Transition-metal-catalyzed C-H and C-C bond activation has emerged as a powerful strategy to form organic building blocks of complex structures in a step-and atom-economical fashion. Catalytic C-H bond activation has emerged as a process to produce structurally diverse organic molecules due to the minimization of stoichiometric metallic waste.1