Low molecular weight synthetic peptides have been demonstrated to be effective catalysts
for an increasingly wide array of asymmetric transformations. In many cases, these peptide …

γ-Butenolides, γ-butyrolactones, and derivatives, especially in enantiomerically pure form,
constitute the structural core of numerous natural products which display an impressive …

In the past decades there has been a dramatic increase in the demand for enantiopure
compounds for fine-chemicals (ie, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals) and material …

Catalytic asymmetric CC bond-forming reactions using organometallic reagents are among
the most important of organic transformations. 1 Frequently, these transformations are key …

Chiral tertiary alcohols and R-tertiary amines are important building blocks of naturally
occurring and artificial biologically active molecules. Although there are catalytic asymmetric …

A comprehensive overview of recent literature from 2003 concerning advances in
enantioselective copper catalysed 1, 4-addition of organometallic reagents to α, β …

The success of phosphine-oxazoline ligands (PHOX) inspired the progress in P-oxazoline
ligand families by modifying either the ligand backbone, the electronic and/or steric …

There have been numerous significant advances in catalytic olefin metathesis (OM) during
the past two decades. Such progress has transformed this important set of reactions to …

The enantioselective synthesis of flavanones and chromanones is described. Bifunctional
thiourea catalysts promote an asymmetric oxo-conjugate addition to a β-ketoester alkylidene …

Catalytic tandem asymmetric reactions constitute a powerful strategy for the asymmetric
construction of nonadjacent stereocenters in acyclic molecules directly from achiral …