The present review “Iron Catalysis in Organic Synthesis” covers the literature until the end of
June 2014 and represents a comprehensive update of a previous article published by Bolm …

Ionic liquids have gained wide popularity in recent years 1–8 for their increasing use in the
two important fields of chemistry—synthetic and biochemical—and their concept and history …

A task-specific ionic liquid,[bmIm] OH, has been introduced as a catalyst and as a reaction
medium in Michael addition. Very interestingly, although the addition to α, β-unsaturated …

Through oxidative carbene catalysis the reactivity of enals can be reversed at the β position
from the typical electrophilic to nucleophilic (homoenolate chemistry) further to electrophilic …

The development of efficient asymmetric methods for constructing C–C bonds has enjoyed
considerable attention from the organic community in the past 30 years. Among the synthetic …

Bismuth nitrate-catalyzed versatile Michael reaction was developed to reduce the
complications that characterize the current standard Michael reaction and used for facile …

The first example of a catalytic Michael addition reaction of non-activated aliphatic nitriles to
α, β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds under mild, neutral conditions is reported. A new de …

This review covers the recent applications of chiral thioether ligands in asymmetric catalysis
with transition metal complexes. S, S-Homo and S, X-heterodonor ligands are considered …

We have developed an environmentally benign synthetic approach to nucleophilic
substitution reactions of alcohols that minimizes or eliminates the formation of byproducts …

Lipase‐catalyzed organic reactions have widely been practiced in the past three decades. In
addition to its wide acceptance in conventional reactions such as hydrolysis …