Enantioselective desymmetrization of prochiral cyclohexadienones and kinetic resolution of
racemic cyclohexadienones are powerful strategies for the construction of enantiomerically …

Desymmetrization of prochiral or meso-substrates bearing pre-existing stereogenic centers
has proven to be a practical and efficient strategy in synthetic chemistry and has attracted …

The dearomatization of 3‐nitroindoles through a chiral‐phosphine‐mediated [3+ 2]
annulation reaction is described. This method makes use of readily available 3‐nitroindoles …

A phosphine‐catalyzed highly enantioselective and diastereoselective (up to 98% ee and>
20: 1 dr)(3+ 2) annulation between vinylcyclopropanes and N‐tosylaldimines has been …

The first asymmetric synthesis of tetrasubstituted α‐amino allenoates by a chiral phosphoric
acid catalyzed dearomative γ‐addition reaction of 2, 3‐disubstituted indoles to β, γ‐alkynyl …

The first copper‐catalyzed highly chemo‐, regio‐, diastereo‐, and enantioselective
Kinugasa/Michael domino reaction for the desymmetrization of prochiral cyclohexadienones …

The enantioselective dearomatization of indoles by an organocatalytic (3+ 2) reaction has
been established. The reaction makes use of simple indole derivatives as substrates, and …

A novel strategy for the asymmetric construction of functionalized 4-aryl-3, 4-
dihydrocoumarins and 4-aryl-3, 4-dihydroquinolin-2-ones via an intramolecular vinylogous …

The last two decades or so have witnessed an upsurge in defining the art of designing
complex natural products and nature-inspired molecules. Throughout these decades …

The development of transition‐metal catalyzed enantioselective and diastereoselective
transformations has contributed many advances in the field of synthetic organic chemistry …