This review highlights a number of additives that can be used to make asymmetric reactions
perfect. Without changing other reaction conditions, simply adding additives can lead to …

Sulfur can form diverse S (IV) and S (VI) stereogenic centers, of which some have gained
significant attention recently due to their increasing use as pharmacophores in drug …

This review provides a critical analysis of catalytic kinetic resolution reactions from a
practical perspective, asking the question of when, if ever, is kinetic resolution the best …

Who would have thought before 1986 that an enantiomerically impure catalyst could give a
product in an asymmetric synthesis with an enantiomeric excess higher than that of the …

There is a need for the preparation of enantiomerically pure compounds for various
applications. An efficient approach to achieve this goal is asymmetric catalysis. The chiral …

While tremendous advances have been made in asymmetric synthesis, the resolution of
racemates is still the most important industrial approach to the synthesis of chiral …

The metal–salen complexes (metal= Mn, Cr, Fe, Ru, Co, V and Ti) find widespread use as
efficient catalysts for the selective oxygenation of organic sulfides, sulfoxides and aromatic …

The first example of the catalytic asymmetric oxidation of tert-butyl disulfide (1) is described.
The product, tert-butyl tert-butanethiosulfinate (2) is obtained with 91% enantiomeric excess …

Chirally modified vanadium complexes have been used as catalysts in enantioselective
epoxidations of allylic alcohols and asymmetric sulfide to sulfoxide oxidations. For both …

Addition and substitution reactions with carbon nucleophiles are fundamental processes in
organic synthesis, and the development of general catalytic asymmetric variants thereof is …