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In recent years, great improvements have been made on palladium‐catalyzed radical reactions. Emerging elegant methodologies of radical involved palladium‐catalyzed transformations provide more and more effective strategies for the construction of complex heterocyclic compounds and applications in drug discovery. It is universally known that Pd(0)/(II)/(IV)‐mediated reactions usually undergo two‐electron transfer processes, while the Pd(I) and Pd(III) involved reactions usually occur via single electron transfer processes. Since our review on palladium radical was published, numurous methodolgies involving palladium radical have sprung up in the past five years. This review further summarized the up‐to‐date transformations toward palladium radical from 2015. For most of these catalytic cycles strategies, plausible mechanisms are demonstrated in detail to give better insight for chemists in need.

A novel copper-catalyzed direct α-ketoesterification of propiophenones with acetophenones via C(sp(3))-H oxidative cross-coupling was developed. The reaction utilized O2 as a clean oxidant with high atom economy and the starting materials are facile and commercially available.

A green organic reaction of aliphatic primary amines with 1,3-diketones promoted by 30% aqueous H2O2 has been developed. It provides an inexpensive, regioselective, and efficient approach to 1H-pyrrol-3(2H)-ones with high yields from the simple and readily available starting materials in one pot via multicomponent tandem cyclization reactions and C-C cleavage under very mild and environmentally friendly reaction conditions.