Missing archivelog? Don’t rebuild your Standby (12c style)
Link to article published in Toad World, about how to overcome the lack of archivelogs to synchronize a standby database in Oracle.
Troubleshoot: losing control
The enq: CF – contention event could be resolved with controlfile maintenance if the controlfile contains a large number of archived log records.
Deleted the OraInventory? Not all is lost

Learn how to recreate a corrupted or deleted Oracle oraInventory, using runInstaller to attach the Oracle Homes.
Missing archivelog? Do not rebuild your standby database
The synchronization of the physical standby in Oracle has halted, and you don’t have the required archivedlogs? It is still possible to synchronize without having to rebuild it; learn how.
Troubleshoot: data guard synchronization stuck with error ORA-01274
How to deal with ORA 01274 error in Oracle, after adding a datafile in primary site, causing standby to stop synchronizing