Titelbild: Enantiospecific C?H Activation Using Ruthenium Nanocatalysts (Angew. Chem. 36/2015)

The activation of C H bonds has revolutionized modern synthetic chemistry. However, no general strategy for enantiospecific C H activation has been developed to date. We herein report an enantiospecific C H activation reaction followed by deuterium incorporation at stereogenic centers. Mechanistic studies suggest that the selectivity for the α‐position of the directing heteroatom results from a four‐membered dimetallacycle as the key intermediate. This work paves the way to novel molecular chemistry on nanoparticles.