The efficient synthesis of enantioenriched compounds is becoming increasingly important in
modern organic, pharmaceutical, and materials chemistry. Recently, chiral cooperative …

Allylic alcohols represent an important and highly versatile class of chiral building blocks for
organic synthesis. This Review summarizes the plethora of methods developed for the …

Selective cleavage of CC bonds is very important in organic chemistry, but remains
challenging because of their inert chemical nature. Herein, we report that Zn/NC-X catalysts …

Over the past decade, large strides have been achieved in the invention of methods for the
direct enantioselective addition of alkynes and metal alkynylide nucleophiles into prochiral …

In the development of new systems for asymmetric synthesis it has always been a big
challenge to obtain optically active compounds with good yields and selectivities. For this …

Conspectus The development of catalytic enantioselective transformations has been the
focus of many research groups over the past half century and is of paramount importance to …

Enantioselective catalytic formation of tertiary stereogenic centers has nowadays reached
an impressive level of maturity, as is reflected in the large variety of available methods that …

Zinc is the 24th most abundant element in the Earth's crust. Since the discovery of pure zinc
metal in the 18th century, the main application of zinc metal is as materials. Because zinc …

The ProPhenol ligand is a member of the chiral aza‐crown family that spontaneously forms
a bimetallic complex upon treatment with alkyl metal reagents, such as Et2Zn and Bu2Mg …

A unified total synthesis of stemoamide-type alkaloids is reported. Our synthetic approach
features the chemoselective convergent assembly of five-membered building blocks via …