Hydrogenation is one of the most fundamental transformations in organic synthesis, and its
industrial applications span from fine chemicals to pharmaceuticals synthesis. 1− 3 Direct …

The present review paper deals with the development of catalytic systems in water in the
presence of micelles obtained by addition of surfactants, focusing on the effects of these …

This review highlights a number of additives that can be used to make asymmetric reactions
perfect. Without changing other reaction conditions, simply adding additives can lead to …

Recent development of conceptually new chiral bifunctional transition metal based catalysts
for asymmetric reductive transformations is described. The chiral bifunctional molecular …

A mild and operationally simple iron-catalyzed protocol for the selective aerobic oxidation of
aromatic olefins to carbonyl compounds is described. Catalyzed by a Fe (III) species bearing …

Asymmetric catalysis constitutes one of the most important subjects in chemistry originating
thousands of published works every year. But still, the application of such methodologies in …

Asymmetric transfer hydrogenation has become a practically useful tool in reduction
chemistry in the last decade or so. This was largely triggered by the seminal work of Noyori …

The preparation of chiral alcohols and amines by using iridium catalysis is reviewed. The
methods presented include the reduction of ketones or imines by using hydrogen …

Asymmetric transfer hydrogenation (ATH) of ketones by formate in neat water is shown to be
viable with Rh‐TsDPEN and Ir‐TsDPEN catalysts, derived in situ from [Cp* MCl2] 2 (M= Rh …

The mechanism of aqueous‐phase asymmetric transfer hydrogenation (ATH) of
acetophenone (acp) with HCOONa catalyzed by Ru‐TsDPEN has been investigated by …