Carbohydrates are a fundamental unit playing pivotal roles in all the biological processes. It
is thus essential to develop methods for synthesizing, functionalizing, and manipulating …

Allenes are the simplest class of cumulenes, with two contiguous C C bonds, and show
unique physical and chemical properties. These features make allenes particularly attractive …

A user-friendly approach is presented to sidestep the venerable Grignard addition to
unactivated ketones to access tertiary alcohols by reversing the polarity of the disconnection …

The addition of an organometallic reagent to a carbonyl compound or an imine represents
an important process in synthetic organic chemistry because in this reaction, together with a …

Enantioenriched alcohols found in an array of bioactive natural products and
pharmaceutical agents are often synthesized by asymmetric nucleophilic addition to …

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the latest applications of
organophosphorus compounds (OPs) that exhibit biological activity. A large family of OPs …

The propargylation reaction is one of the most important fundamental reactions in organic
synthesis. It features mild reaction conditions, a tolerance of a diverse range of functional …

Chiral tertiary alcohols are an important class of organic compounds which have found wide
applications in both academia and industry. Therefore, various synthetic strategies towards …

Both enantiomers of 2, 3-bis (tert-butylmethylphosphino) quinoxaline (QuinoxP*), 1, 2-bis
(tert-butylmethylphosphino) benzene (BenzP*), and 1, 2-bis (tert-butylmethylphosphino)-4, 5 …

Enantioselective allylation is a highly used organic reaction to prepare chiral homoallylic
alcohols and amines, which serve as important building blocks in the synthesis of a variety …