Mechanochemical approaches in an organic synthesis have received increased interest
because of their wide applications in green methodologies. Ball milling has been fruitfully …

Solvents play a critical role in “greening” synthetic chemistry, and this is also true in catalytic
organic synthesis. This review attempts to summarize the progress made in the past a few …

Free and immobilized baker's yeast were successfully employed in the asymmetric
hydrogenations of prochiral β-keto esters and ketones in glycerol. The activities with …

The development of efficient biomass valorization is imperative for the future sustainable
production of chemicals and fuels. Particularly, the last decade has witnessed the …

Herein, based on the concept of integration of phosphine ligands and ionic liquids (ILs), a
class of chiral phosphine-functionalized polyether ionic liquids (CPF-PILs) were synthesized …

Chiral secondary alcohols are ubiquitous motifs in numerous natural products,
pharmaceuticals, and biological active compounds. Catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation of …

Herein, a novel class of room temperature chiral phosphine-functionalized polyether
imidazolium ionic liquids (RTCP-PolyIMILs) was synthesized for the first time by an ion …

Asymmetric epoxidation of olefins with 30% H2O2 in the presence of [Ru (pybox)(pydic)] 1
and [Ru (pyboxazine)(pydic)] 2 has been studied in detail (pybox= pyridine‐2, 6 …

Chiral catalytic complex (R)—[RuCl (binap)(p-cymene)] Cl was used in asymmetric
hydrogenation of methyl acetoacetate to methyl-3-hydroxybutyrate in the mixed methanol …

Upon comparison of hydrogenation rates of various β-ketocarboxylic acid derivatives, β-
ketoamides were found to be hydrogenated slightly faster than β-ketoesters in EtOH in the …