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N‐Heterocyclic carbene (NHC) organocatalysis has been developed as an important
approach in modern organic synthesis. Versatile activation modes within NHC …

The development of switchable chemo-, regio-, or diastereodivergent reactions, in which two
or more structurally and stereogenically different types of chiral products could be produced …

The use of NHCs for generating homoenolate species has gained widespread popularity in
recent years. A number of highly stereoselective processes of NHC-homoenolates have …

The principle of vinylogy states that the electronic effects of a functional group in a molecule
are possibly transmitted to a distal position through interposed conjugated multiple bonds …

A novel oxidative N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed reaction pathway has been discovered.
Alkyl and aryl enals undergo β-hydroxylation via oxygen atom transfer from electron …

A highly enantioselective N‐heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalyzed formal [3+ 2] annulation
of α, β‐unsaturated aldehydes with azaaurones or aurone generating spiro‐heterocycles …

β-Branched carboxylic acid derivatives are privileged structural fragments for synthesis and
medicinal chemistry. An important synthetic bottleneck of these molecules is how to …

N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) are versatile species that figure prominently as catalysts.
Despite their widespread use in organocatalysis, studies of the relationship between the …

An asymmetric intermolecular reaction between enals and nitroalkenes to yield δ-nitroesters
has been developed, catalyzed by a novel chiral N-heterocyclic carbene. Key to this work …