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A convenient Fe-catalyzed four-component radical dual difunctionalization and ordered assembly of two alkenes with aromatic/aliphatic aldehydes and TBHP to provide chain elongated β,δ-functionalized ketones via a one-pot procedure has been developed. Aldehydes were homolytically cleavaged to produce acyl radicals and subsequently allowed for the successive construction of C(sp2)-C(sp3), C(sp3)-C(sp3), and C(sp3)-O bonds via dual radical insertions and radical-radical coupling, following the intrinsic nucleo/electrophilic reactivity of both the radicals and alkenes.

A convenient Fe-catalyzed four-component radical dual difunctionalization and ordered assembly of two alkenes with aromatic/aliphatic aldehydes and TBHP to provide chain elongated β,δ-functionalized ketones via a one-pot procedure has been developed. Aldehydes were homolytically cleavaged to produce acyl radicals and subsequently allowed for the successive construction of C(sp

[Structure: see text] Catalyzed by the Rhodococcus erythropolis AJ270 whole cell catalyst, the O-benzylated beta-hydroxy alkanenitriles underwent remarkably high enantioselective biotransformations, whereas the biotransformations of free beta-hydroxy alkanenitriles gave very low enantioselectivity. The easy manipulations of O-protection and O-deprotection, excellent chemical and enantiomeric yields of biotransformations, along with the scalability render this enzymatic transformation attractive and practical for the synthesis of highly enantiopure beta-hydroxy alkanoic acids and their amide derivatives.