Hoveyda, along with Boston College chemists Ming Joo Koh, Thach T. Nguyen, and Hanmo Zhang and MIT’s Richard R. Schrock, has now used cross-metathesis chemistry to prepare Z-alkenyl bromides ...

Visible-light-mediated photocatalytic generation of carbon-centred radicals from alkyl, alkenyl and aryl iodides, which then undergo subsequent hydrogen-atom abstraction or reductive cyclizations ...