Technical Notes:

1. Catalyst for the aziridination of olefins.

2.Mild catalyst, superior to CuCl, in the methyle netriphenylphos phorane methyleneation of aldehydes and ketones.

3.Copper(I) catalyzed alkylation of aryl and alkenylsilanes.

4.Copper-catalyzed formal methylative and hydrogenative carboxylation of alkynes with carbon dioxide.

5.Regioselective copper-catalyzed carboxylation of allylboronates with carbon dioxide.

6.Carboxylation of organoboronic esters with potassium methyl carbonate under copper catalysis.

7. Catalytic anti-Markovnikov hydrobromination of alkynes.

8. Copper-catalyzed borylative cross-coupling of allenes and imines .