Electrochemistry has emerged as a powerful means to enable redox transformations in
modern chemical synthesis. This tutorial review delves into the unique advantages of …

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 …

Intellectual curiosity has always been one of the major driving forces leading to new
advances in chemistry. At the onset of the 20th century, the fact that biaryls could be optically …

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 …

Chiral molecules containing asymmetric carbon centers bonded with nitrogen are ubiquitous
in nature and also form important structural fragments in both natural and man-made …

Abstract 140 Years ago Adolf von Baeyer proposed the structure of a heteroaromatic
compound which revolutionized organic and medical chemistry: indole. After more than a …

It was found that the phosphoric acid derivatives of general structure 1 serve as highly
effective catalysts for the direct addition of acetyl acetone to N-Boc-protected arylimines. The …

The term “organocatalysis” describes the acceleration of chemical reactions through the
addition of a substoichiometric quantity of an organic compound. The interest in this field has …

This review covers reactions where iminium ions are likely to be active intermediates in the
catalytic cycle. The focus of the review is on synthetically useful protocols and smallmolecule …

Abstract The legacy of Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875–1946) pervades the lexicon of chemical
bonding and reactivity. The power of his concept of donor–acceptor bonding is evident in the …