“…When R alkyl X was the electrophile, the success was more limited due to the difficult oxidative addition of R alkyl X towards metal catalysts, and the fast but deleterious b-H elimination. [6][7][8][9] Recently, pioneered by Fu, Organ and Nolan etc., cross-coupling reactions involving R alkyl X were revolutionized by employing electronrich and sterically hindered phosphine ligands or carbene ligands, and showed good potential in organic synthesis. [7,[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] With our strong interest in Csp 3 -related coupling reactions, we recently developed an oxidative crosscoupling reaction (shown in Scheme 1 B), in which two nucleophiles, prepared readily from inexpensive and abundant organic chlorides, could be coupled together in the presence of an oxidant, A À B.…”