The area of direct asymmetric functionalization of inert C–H bonds has attracted
considerable attention in recent years. To realize this type of challenging but promising …

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 …

The vastly increasing application of chiral Cp ligands in asymmetric catalysis results in
growing demand for novel chiral Cp ligands. Herein, we report a new class of chiral Cp …

The success of phosphine-oxazoline ligands (PHOX) inspired the progress in P-oxazoline
ligand families by modifying either the ligand backbone, the electronic and/or steric …

Silaspiranes have attracted particular attention due to their chiral spiro‐silicon center, which
serves as an ideal carbon isostere and can endow spiro‐analogs with distinct properties …

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 …

1, 1′-Spirobiindane has been one type of privileged skeleton for chiral ligand design, and
1, 1′-spirobiindane-based chiral ligands have demonstrated outstanding performance in …

Since the first definition of domino reactions by Tietze in 1993, an explosive number of these
fascinating reactions has been developed, allowing the easily building of complex chiral …