Fig. 1: Gold-catalyzed selective multifunctionalization of alkynes.
From: Gold-catalyzed four-component multifunctionalization of alkynes

a General catalytic difunctionalization and multifunctionalization of alkynes. b General model for gold-catalyzed alkyne functionalization. c Shi’s recent work for gold-catalyzed directed strategy. d This work: gold-catalyzed multifunctionalization of alkynes tuned by site-directing groups.