This feature article illustrates progress in asymmetric organocatalysis achieved by using
readily available α, α-L-diaryl prolinols from 2009 up to middle 2012. This class of …

Both physical and organic chemists are interested in the cyclopropane ring, the former
owing to the strain inherent to the small ring structure, the latter prompted by the importance …

A chiral Lewis acid-promoted enantioselective cyclopropanation using phenyliodonium ylide
as the carbene precursor was developed. A variety of spirocyclopropane-oxindoles with …

A series of compounds featuring a novel bispiro [indanedione-oxindole-cyclopropane]
moiety have been synthesized through a squaramide-catalyzed [2+ 1] cycloaddition …

Abstract Arylidene-1, 3-indanediones are readily available 1, 3-dipolarophile and
dienophiles that have been frequently used in numerous synthetic processes to produce a …

An organocatalytic asymmetric synthesis of spironitrocyclopropanes has been demonstrated
starting from 2-arylidene-1, 3-indandiones and bromonitroalkanes catalyzed by a cinchona …

An organocatalytic domino reaction between 2-arylideneindane-1, 3-diones and
glutaraldehyde has been devised that gives functionalized spirocyclohexane carbaldehydes …

Herein is reported an N-iodosuccinimide-initiated spirocyclopropanation reaction of styrenes
with 1, 3-dicarbonyl compounds in the presence of white LED light. The reaction proceeds …

The combined electrolysis of barbituric acids and benzylidenemalononitriles or
benzylidenecyanoacetates in methanol in an undivided cell in the presence of sodium …

An organocatalytic enantioselective Tamura cycloaddition between homophthalic
anhydrides and 2-arylidene-1, 3-indanediones has been developed. With 2 mol% of …