Darren J. Dixon Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK   Abstract New catalysts are key for unlocking previously unknown molecular reactivity and unexplored chemical space, as well as governing the 3-dimensional structure of product molecules of interest to chemistry, biology and medicine. In this lecture, new synthetically relevant chemistry linked to two distinct types of catalyst systems will presented. In the first part, recent developments from our group for the direct synthesis of alpha and beta-functionalised…