Recent developments in the Meyer‐Schuster rearrangement

A century after its discovery, the Meyer-Schuster rearrangement appears as a very useful method to prepare α,β-unsaturated carbonyl derivatives. This comprehensive review highlights the progress of this reaction during the last decade focusing on the new catalysts, the novel cascade reactions, the brilliant applications in total synthesis of natural products, and the first examples of aza-Meyer-Schuster rearrangement.