Hydrogenation is one of the most fundamental transformations in organic synthesis, and its
industrial applications span from fine chemicals to pharmaceuticals synthesis. 1− 3 Direct …

Recent development of conceptually new chiral bifunctional transition metal based catalysts
for asymmetric reductive transformations is described. The chiral bifunctional molecular …

Hydrogen transfer reduction processes are attracting increasing interest from synthetic
chemists in view of their operational simplicity and high selectivity. In this tutorial review the …

Water is truly ubiquitous. Approximately 80% of the earth's surface is covered by water,
although only 1% of this is drinkable water. Water is the solvent of life and makes up about …

The discovery and development of conceptually new chiral bifunctional transition metal-
based catalysts for asymmetric reactions is described. The chiral bifunctional Ru catalyst …

A mild and operationally simple iron-catalyzed protocol for the selective aerobic oxidation of
aromatic olefins to carbonyl compounds is described. Catalyzed by a Fe (III) species bearing …

Asymmetric catalysis constitutes one of the most important subjects in chemistry originating
thousands of published works every year. But still, the application of such methodologies in …

Asymmetric transfer hydrogenation has become a practically useful tool in reduction
chemistry in the last decade or so. This was largely triggered by the seminal work of Noyori …

Basic ionic liquids as environmental-friendly solvents and catalysts with high activity and
selectivity and easily recovered materials were used to replace traditional bases such as …

Catalysis in water represents a major area of intense research in modern chemistry.[1] Water
is inexpensive, readily available, and environmentally benign, and is thus an ideal solvent …