The term all-carbon quaternary stereocentre refers to a chiral carbon atom featuring four
different carbon substituents. Such structural motifs are prominent in natural products, drugs …

This review covers the recent developments (since 2015) of enantioselective
desymmetrization reactions using metal-catalyzed, organocatalyzed and enzymatic …

A remarkable growth in hypervalent iodine‐mediated oxidative transformations as
stoichiometric reagents as well as catalysts has been well‐documented due to their …

Enantioselective desymmetrization of prochiral cyclohexadienones and kinetic resolution of
racemic cyclohexadienones are powerful strategies for the construction of enantiomerically …

A novel method toward a facile synthesis of diverse benzofuran derivates from easily
obtained quinols and alkynyl esters has been reported. A gold-catalyzed intermolecular …

The development of transition‐metal catalyzed enantioselective and diastereoselective
transformations has contributed many advances in the field of synthetic organic chemistry …

The complexity-to-diversity (CtD) strategy has become one of the most powerful tools used
to transform complex natural products into diverse skeleta. However, the reactions utilized in …

The intermolecular transformation of simple substrates into highly functionalized scaffolds
with multiple stereogenic centers is an attractive strategy in modern organic synthesis …

An enantioselective [5+ 1] annulation of α-hydroxyl aryl ketones with cyclohexadienone-
tethered enones via chiral dinuclear zinc catalysts is reported. A Brønsted base and Lewis …

Herein, we present a straightforward approach to access hydroindoline-5-one-based 6/5/3-
fused polycyclic ring structures through multistep cascade reactions involving α-aryl …