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Golden cascades: Two diastereoselective gold‐catalyzed cascade processes in which propargyl acetates react with alkenes or 1,4‐dienes afford highly substituted five‐ and seven‐membered rings, respectively (see scheme). The concerted nature of the gold‐catalyzed Cope rearrangement has been used in the formal enantioselective synthesis of marine norsesquiterpenoids Frondosins A and B.

Low antiferromagnetism of μ-alkoxo-μ-carboxylatodicopper(II) complexes were reasonably explained in terms of the orbital countercomplementary effect based on Hoffmann’s theory for superexchange interaction.

New binuclear copper(II) complex bridged by an alkoxo-oxygen atom and an acetate ion was prepared, and its crystal structure was determined by X-ray diffraction method.