This review covers diastereo-and enantiodivergent catalyzed reactions in acyclic and cyclic
systems using metal complexes or organocatalysts. Among them, nucleophilic addition to …

Chiral salen–metal complexes are among the most versatile asymmetric catalysts and have
found utility in fields ranging from materials chemistry to organic synthesis. These complexes …

In this minireview, squaramides are presented from their roots as artificial anion receptors in
molecular recognition studies to their recent advances as powerful bifunctional hydrogen …

Reactions that utilize addition of active C− H nucleophiles to C X bonds represent some of
the most fundamental carbon− carbon bond-forming processes in organic chemistry. Of …

The assembly of architecturally complex alkaloids embedding the indole nucleus is of
paramount importance for the target oriented synthesis of biologically active molecules. 1 A …

Cooperative catalysis has proven to be a powerful strategy for realizing high reactivity and
selectivity in asymmetric transformations. A variety of cooperative asymmetric catalysts have …

This article reviews the applications of cinchona alkaloids as asymmetric catalysts. In the last
few years, characterized by the resurgence of interest in asymmetric organocatalysis …

The amide bond is one of nature's most common functional and structural elements, as the
backbones of all natural peptides and proteins are composed of amide bonds. Amides are …

The Cinchona alkaloids are natural products found in the bark of trees of the genus
Cinchona. The genus comprises about 40 species of trees or shrubs in the family Rubiaceae …

Chiral tetraaminophosphonium salts 1 possessing the phosphorus-centered [5.5]-spirocyclic
core have been designed and synthesized in a single step from l-valine-derived diamine …