"Hydrocarbons are one of the important class of fundamental starting materials in organic synthesis, which have recently experienced a tremendous growth in development of atom-efficient organic reactions including the direct functionalization of carbon-hydrogen bond of alkanes, carbon-carbon bond formation by direct oxidative dehydrogenative coupling reactions of hydrocarbons, the addition and cycloaddition reactions of unsaturated hydrocarbons to synthesize functionalized alkanes and alkenes, carbo- and heterocyclic compounds."-- |