Four types of alkenyl organocopper(I) aggregates linked by 1,3-butadienyl and/or 1,3,5,7-octatetraenyl moieties were selectively realized in good isolated yields. All these organocopper(I) aggregates were structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray structural analysis. These unprecedented aggregates, stabilized by multiple Cu-Cu interactions and the conjugated 1,3-butadienyl or 1,3,5,7-octatetraenyl bridges, could undergo controlled structural transformations. The 1,4-dicopper 1,3-butadienyl aggregate 3 could be efficiently transformed to aggregate 2, while LiI could disaggregate the 1,3-butadienyl-1,3,5,7-octatetraenyl aggregate 4 to 1,3,5,7-octatetraenyl aggregate 5 and 1,3-butadienyl aggregate 2. Preliminary reaction chemistry and synthetic applications of these organocopper(I) aggregates were also investigated.

An efficient Pd-catalyzed cleavage of C(sp(3))-N bonds in secondary amines and a consequent C(sp(2))-N and C(sp(3))-N coupling process was developed. Various secondary amines could be used to react with alkenyl or aryl dibromides, affording pyrroles and indoles in high yields. Cyclopentadiene-phosphine ligands, a new type of P-olefin ligand, were found to be able to promote the efficiency of this Pd-catalyzed process remarkably. A reactive Pd complex coordinated with a cyclopentadiene-phosphine ligand was successfully isolated and structurally characterized.

The first transition-metal-catalyzed activation of silyl C(sp(3))-H bond was realized and synthetically applied. A variety of organic skeletons substituted with SiMe(3) groups could undergo the Pd-catalyzed intramolecular coupling reaction, resulting in an unprecedented synthetic method for yielding six-membered silacycles. It was found that the adjacent Si atom played an essential role for the activation of the C(sp(3))-H bond of the SiMe(3) group; no activation reaction of the C(sp(3))-H bond of the CMe(3) group took place under the same reaction conditions.