The concept of bifunctional catalysis, wherein both partners of a bimolecular reaction are
simultaneously activated, is very powerful for designing efficient asymmetric catalysts …

Tietze has defined a domino reaction as involving two or more bond-forming
transformations, which take place under the same reaction conditions, without adding …

A catalytic asymmetric conjugate hydrophosphination of α, β-unsaturated amides is
accomplished by virtue of the strong nucleophilicity of copper (I)-PPh2 species, which …

Active without activation: In an inexpensive and atom‐economical approach to C H bond
functionalization, a cationic CoIII complex (see scheme) was used to generate nucleophilic …

The design and application of linked-BINOLs investigated in our group are reviewed. Linked-
BINOLs are a kind of semi-crown ether, thus they are flexible and applicable to metals …

Although high enantioselectivity of [2, 3]-sigmatropic rearrangement of sulfonium ylides
(Doyle–Kirmse reaction) has proven surprisingly elusive using classic chiral Rh (II) and Cu …

This study demonstrates that unsaturated acyl phosphonates are excellent hydrogen-bond
acceptors in enantioselective organocatalysis. By employing chiral thioureas or …

The conjugate addition of carbon nucleophiles to acceptor activated olefins is one of the
most important reactions for carbon-carbon bond formation. With optically active metal …

The highly enantioselective sulfa-Michael addition of alkyl thiols to unactivated α-substituted
acrylate esters catalyzed by a bifunctional iminophosphorane organocatalyst under mild …

Catalytic and asymmetric Michael reactions constitute very powerful tools for the
construction of new C–C bonds in synthesis, but most of the reports claiming high selectivity …