A palladium-catalyzed decarboxylative cyclopropanation of 2-alkylidenetrimethylene carbonates with isocyanates is described to form oxazolidinones of (1-aminocyclopropyl)methanols with high selectivity. The site of nucleophilic attack is directed by connecting the two reaction components and by employing an electron-deficient triarylphosphine ligand.

A palladium-catalyzed desymmetrization of alkyne-tethered silacyclobutanes to give silacycles possessing a tetraorganosilicon stereocenter has been developed, and high chemo- and enantioselectivities have been achieved by the use of a newly synthesized chiral phosphoramidite ligand.

A palladium-catalyzed enantioselective desymmetrization of silacyclobutanes with alkynes has been developed to give silicon-stereogenic 1-sila-2-cyclohexenes with high enantioselectivity. The products thus obtained undergo further derivatizations with complete stereoselectivity, and a new catalytic cycle involving alkyne coordination (oxidative cyclization)-transmetalation (σ-bond metathesis)-reductive elimination has also been proposed.