............................................................................................................................................... iv List of Tables......................................................................................................................................xii List of Figures...................................................................................................................................xiv Acknowledgements .........................................................................................................................xx Chapter 1 .............................................................................................................................................. 1 Review on Transition Metal-Catalyzed Allylic Amination and Gold(I)-Catalyzed Dehydrative Functionalization of Allylic Alcohols .................................................................... 1 1.1 Allylic amination ................................................................................................................... 2 1.2 Transition metal-catalyzed allylic amination.................................................................. 3 1.2.1 Regioselectivity and mechanism of transition metal-catalyzed allylic substitution ................................................................................................................................. 4 1.2.2 Asymmetric allylic amination ....................................................................................... 6 1.3 Transition metal-catalyzed amination of underivatized allylic alcohols .................. 9 1.3.1 Mechanism and stereoselectivity of catalytic amination involving underivatized allylic alcohols ...............................................................................................15 1.3.2 Intramolecular catalytic amination of underivatized allylic alcohols ................18 1.3.3 Asymmetric catalytic amination of underivatized allylic alcohols .....................21 1.4 Gold(I)-catalyzed dehydrative functionalization of underivatized allylic alcohols .......................................................................................................................................................25 1.4.1 Importance of gold(I)-catalysis ...................................................................................25 1.4.2 Gold(I)-catalyzed functionalization of allylic alcohols ..........................................26 1.4.3 Gold(I)-catalyzed asymmetric dehydrative functionalization of allylic alcohols .....................................................................................................................................................29 1.5 Conclusions ..........................................................................................................................30 Chapter 2 ............................................................................................................................................32