The preparation of chiral compounds in enantiomerically pure form is a challenging goal in
modern organic synthesis. The use of chiral metal complex catalysis is a powerful …

Conspectus While spectacular successes have been achieved in homogeneous catalysis
with the use of achiral diphosphine ligands featuring a wide natural bite angle, such as …

In the last decade there have been numerous advances in the area of rhodium-catalyzed
hydroformylation, such as highly selective catalysts of industrial importance, new insights …

Spirocycles provide an exciting platform to develop and understand the reactivity and
selectivity for a wide variety of catalysts while affording diverse strategies to access …

Recently, the chemistry of chiral aromatic spiroketals has received much attention because
they are key substructures in biologically active natural products,[1] pharmaceuticals,[2] and …

Showing a backbone: The spiroketal backbone of the bis (phosphine) ligand 1 led to good
regio‐and enantioselectivity in the palladium‐catalyzed asymmetric allylic amination of …

Transition metal catalyzed asymmetric reaction is a hot issue and a frontier of the research in
current organic chemistry. The design and synthesis of new type of efficient chiral ligands …

This review highlights the use of a bisphosphine ligand group in homogeneous catalysis.
This ligand group is known as the Xantphos-like ligands, which are based on the generic …

We reported herein an iridium/silver/acid ternary catalytic system to access
bisbenzannulated [6, 6]‐spiroketals in high efficiency with generally high diastereo‐and …

Exceptionally high activity (with a TON up to 4750) of the palladium complexes of SKP
ligand was discovered in the catalysis of asymmetric allylic amination of MBH adducts with …