The provision of pure enantiomers is of increasing importance not only for the
pharmaceutical industry but also for agrochemistry and biotechnology. In general, there are …

The past few decades have witnessed some of the most important and revolutionizing
advances in the field of asymmetric catalysis. Chemists no longer rely solely on natural …

Over the past decades, transition metal-catalyzed enantioselective C–H functionalization
has emerged as a straightforward and powerful tool for the rapid access to chiral molecules …

This second edition of the pioneering work on this hot topic captures the major trends and
latest achievements in the art of asymmetric catalysis on an industrial scale. A number of …

Organocatalytic enantioselective desymmetrisation of achiral or meso compounds is a
powerful strategy for the construction of enantiomerically enriched complex molecules, often …

Asymmetric organocatalysis has been successfully incorporated in many multistep one‐pot
sequences to provide simple access to structurally complex target molecules in a highly …

Rhodium-catalyzed asymmetric arylation (RCAA) reactions provide one of the most
straightforward and powerful ways to introduce aryl fragments in an enantioselective …

Pd (II)-catalyzed enantioselective C–H activation of phenylacetic acids followed by an
intramolecular C–O bond formation afforded chiral benzofuranones. This reaction provides …

The concept of bifunctional catalysis, wherein both partners of a bimolecular reaction are
simultaneously activated, is very powerful for designing efficient asymmetric catalysts …

Direct construction of N–C axial chirality via Pd-catalyzed atroposelective C–H olefination of
N-arylindoles is reported. The crucial role of chiral amino acid as a cocatalyst in the regio …