Quantitative structure–selectivity relationships in enantioselective catalysis: past, present, and future

AF Zahrt, SV Athavale, SE Denmark - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The dawn of the 21st century has brought with it a surge of research related to computer-
guided approaches to catalyst design. In the past two decades, chemoinformatics, the …

Dreams, false starts, dead ends, and redemption: a chronicle of the evolution of a chemoinformatic workflow for the optimization of enantioselective catalysts

NI Rinehart, AF Zahrt, JJ Henle… - Accounts of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Catalyst design in enantioselective catalysis has historically been driven by
empiricism. In this endeavor, experimentalists attempt to qualitatively identify trends in …

Predicting highly enantioselective catalysts using tunable fragment descriptors

N Tsuji, P Sidorov, C Zhu, Y Nagata… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Catalyst optimization processes typically rely on inductive and qualitative assumptions of
chemists based on screening data. While machine learning models using molecular …

Development of a computer-guided workflow for catalyst optimization. descriptor validation, subset selection, and training set analysis

JJ Henle, AF Zahrt, BT Rose, WT Darrow… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Modern, enantioselective catalyst development is driven largely by empiricism. Although this
approach has fostered the introduction of most of the existing synthetic methods, it is …

Recent development and improvement for boron hydride-based catalytic asymmetric reduction of unsymmetrical ketones

BT Cho - Chemical Society Reviews, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Catalytic asymmetric reduction of prochiral ketones with hydrides such as boranes and
borohydrides is one of the simplest and the most convenient methods for obtaining chiral …

Synthesis of 1, 2-amino alcohols by decarboxylative coupling of amino acid derived α-amino radicals to carbonyl compounds via visible-light photocatalyst in water

S Pan, M Jiang, J Hu, R Xu, X Zeng, G Zhong - Green Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A general and efficient visible-light photoredox-catalysed decarboxylative radical coupling
reaction of N-aryl amino acids with aldehydes or ketones for the synthesis of various 1, 2 …

A facile circular dichroism protocol for rapid determination of enantiomeric excess and concentration of chiral primary amines

S Nieto, JM Dragna, EV Anslyn - Chemistry–A European …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A protocol for the rapid determination of the absolute configuration and enantiomeric excess
(ee) of α‐chiral primary amines with potential applications in asymmetric reaction discovery …

Reductive cross-coupling reactions (RCCR) between CN and CO for β-amino alcohol synthesis

ON Burchak, S Py - Tetrahedron, 2009 - Elsevier
Vicinal amino alcohols (b-amino alcohols or 1, 2-amino alcohols) are among the most
important tools that chemists have used to tune the stereoselectivity of asymmetric reactions …

Multi-instance learning approach to the modeling of enantioselectivity of conformationally flexible organic catalysts

D Zankov, T Madzhidov, P Polishchuk… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Computational design of chiral organic catalysts for asymmetric synthesis is a promising
technology that can significantly reduce the material and human resources required for the …

Computational methods for training set selection and error assessment applied to catalyst design: guidelines for deciding which reactions to run first and which to run …

AF Zahrt, BT Rose, WT Darrow, JJ Henle… - Reaction Chemistry & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The application of machine learning (ML) to problems in homogeneous catalysis has
emerged as a promising avenue for catalyst optimization. An important aspect of such …