* The oxidative addition of MeI to Ir(I) complexes was shown to proceed about 100 times faster with a hemilabile phosphane ligand compared to a very similar non-labile ligand.
* Hydrovinylation (olefin dimerisation), which is typically difficult to carry out enantioselectively, has been shown to proceed with high enantiomeric excess when using a chiral phosphine ligand with an appropriately placed hemilabile coordinating group.  The Pauson–Khand reaction, which is conceptually similar, has also been shown to give improved results when hemilabile P,S type hybrid ligands were used.
* Iridium(I) complexes incorporating hemilabile ligands which contain methoxy, dimethylamino, and pyridine as donor functions have been shown to be effective catalysts for transfer hydrogenation.