Small heterocycles in multicomponent reactions

BH Rotstein, S Zaretsky, V Rai, AK Yudin - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Small-ring heterocycles have found many applications both as useful starting materials in
the synthesis of more elaborate structures and as valuable targets of synthesis. Our review …

Recent advances in the stereoselective synthesis of aziridines

L Degennaro, P Trinchera, R Luisi - Chemical Reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Aziridines, the smallest nitrogen-containing heterocycles, are useful building blocks in
synthesis, as well as important synthetic targets (Scheme 1). 1 The interest toward synthetic …

Enantioselective main group catalysis: modern catalysts for organic transformations

LC Wilkins, RL Melen - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
This review highlights a number of recent developments in the field of main group
enantioselective catalysis. Many essential transformations can be effected catalytically such …

Recent developments in asymmetric aziridination

H Pellissier - Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This review updates the recent developments in asymmetric aziridination using chiral
substrates as well as chiral catalysts, covering the literature since the beginning of 2010. It …

Helical‐chiral small molecules in asymmetric catalysis

MJ Narcis, N Takenaka - European Journal of Organic …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The design, synthesis and study of novel catalyst structures have had an enormous impact
on asymmetric synthesis and continue to be a field of intense interest. Molecules with helical …

A nanovessel-catalyzed three-component aza-Darzens reaction

SM Bierschenk, RG Bergman… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
It has been previously demonstrated that nanovessels can be highly competent catalysts
providing high rate accelerations and unique selectivity to the organic transformations which …

Three‐Component Asymmetric Catalytic Ugi Reaction—Concinnity from Diversity by Substrate‐Mediated Catalyst Assembly

W Zhao, L Huang, Y Guan… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The first chiral catalyst for the three‐component Ugi reaction was identified as a result of a
screen of a large set of different BOROX catalysts. The BOROX catalysts were assembled in …

Advances in synthesis and chemistry of aziridines

GS Singh - Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Aziridines (azacyclopropanes) constitute the well-known class of heterocyclic compounds.
The studies on synthesis and reactivity of aziridines have drawn tremendous interest of …

Chiral Hydroxytetraphenylene–Boron Complex Catalyzed Asymmetric Diels–Alder Cycloaddition of 2′-Hydroxychalcones

GL Chai, Y Qiao, P Zhang, R Guo, J Wang… - Organic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
(S)-2, 15-Cl2-DHTP–boron complex catalyst for the asymmetric Diels–Alder cycloaddition of
2′-hydroxychalcones and dienes was developed and tested. The resulting cyclohexenes …

Catalytic asymmetric epoxidation of aldehydes with two VANOL‐derived chiral borate catalysts

AK Gupta, X Yin, M Mukherjee, AA Desai… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A highly diastereo‐and enantioselective method for the epoxidation of aldehydes with α‐
diazoacetamides has been developed with two different borate ester catalysts of VANOL …