Enantioselective main group catalysis: modern catalysts for organic transformations

LC Wilkins, RL Melen - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
This review highlights a number of recent developments in the field of main group
enantioselective catalysis. Many essential transformations can be effected catalytically such …

Recent developments in asymmetric aziridination

H Pellissier - Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This review updates the recent developments in asymmetric aziridination using chiral
substrates as well as chiral catalysts, covering the literature since the beginning of 2010. It …

A Two‐Component Alkyne Metathesis Catalyst System with an Improved Substrate Scope and Functional Group Tolerance: Development and Applications to Natural …

S Schaubach, K Gebauer, F Ungeheuer… - … A European Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Although molybdenum alkylidyne complexes such as 1 endowed with triarylsilanolate
ligands are excellent catalysts for alkyne metathesis, they can encounter limitations when …

Helical‐chiral small molecules in asymmetric catalysis

MJ Narcis, N Takenaka - European Journal of Organic …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The design, synthesis and study of novel catalyst structures have had an enormous impact
on asymmetric synthesis and continue to be a field of intense interest. Molecules with helical …

Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of trisubstituted aziridines

L Huang, WD Wulff - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011 - ACS Publications
A method is described which provides for the direct asymmetric catalytic synthesis of
trisubstituted aziridines from imines and diazo compounds. While unactivated imines were …

Substrate‐induced dimerization assembly of chiral macrocycle catalysts toward cooperative asymmetric catalysis

H Guo, LW Zhang, H Zhou, W Meng, YF Ao… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An artificial system of substrate‐induced dimerization assembly of chiral macrocycle
catalysts enables a highly cooperative hydrogen‐bonding activation network for efficient …

Anion Recognition-Directed Supramolecular Catalysis with Functional Macrocycles and Molecular Cages

QQ Wang - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The development of supramolecular chemistry has provided a variety of host
molecules and noncovalent tools for boosting catalytic processes, stimulating the …

Three‐Component Asymmetric Catalytic Ugi Reaction—Concinnity from Diversity by Substrate‐Mediated Catalyst Assembly

W Zhao, L Huang, Y Guan… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The first chiral catalyst for the three‐component Ugi reaction was identified as a result of a
screen of a large set of different BOROX catalysts. The BOROX catalysts were assembled in …

Chiral diol-based organocatalysts in enantioselective reactions

TN Nguyen, PA Chen, K Setthakarn, JA May - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Organocatalysis has emerged as a powerful synthetic tool in organic chemistry in the last
few decades. Among various classes of organocatalysis, chiral diol-based scaffolds, such as …

Chiral Brønsted acid-catalyzed diastereo-and enantioselective synthesis of CF 3-substituted aziridines

Z Chai, JP Bouillon, D Cahard - Chemical Communications, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
A multicomponent organocatalyzed highly diastereo-and enantioselective synthesis of CF3-
substituted aziridines is described. This reaction of in situ generated CF3CHN2 and …