Efficient and reliable amplification of chirality has borne its greatest fruit with transition metal-
catalyzed reactions since enantiocontrol may often be imposed by replacing an achiral or …

Recent interest in the development of environmentally benign synthesis has evoked a
renewed interest in developing polymer-bound metal catalysts and reagents for organic …

The porous materials with high surface area have attracted significant scientific attention due
to their diverse potential applications in separation,[1, 2] heterogeneous catalysis,[3] and …

The remarkable development in homogeneous enantioselective catalysis reflected by the
Nobel prizes in 2001 awarded to Sharpless, Noyori, and Knowles has further spurred the …

The massive increase in use and the broadening range of applications for polymeric
supports in chemistry illustrate the immense significance of the technique to the chemist. The …

I am highly honored to be the co-recipient of the Tetrahedron Prize for 2014 with Professor
Jiro Tsuji for our work on metal catalyzed allylic alkylation, notably that using palladium. In …

A new class of ligands for asymmetric transition metal catalysis based on 2-
(diphenylphosphino) benzoic acid was used in a mechanistically-defined palladium …

The use of polymer-supported reagents and scavengers provides an attractive and practical
method for the clean and efficient preparation of novel chemical libraries with potential …

The synthesis of enantiomerically pure compounds is an extremely important undertaking
and a formida-ble challenge to thesynthetic chemist. 1 The importance of enantiomerically …

It is now IS years since the first patents in polymer supported metal complex catalysts were
taken out. In the early days ion-exchange resins were used to support ionic metal …