In 1994, Ye and McKervey published a paper in Chemical Reviews entitled “Organic
Synthesis with α-Diazocarbonyl Compounds”. 1 Our intention then was to draw attention to …

Asymmetric catalysis with chiral metal complexes has received considerable attention in
recent years, and its contribution to the art of organic synthesis has become of leading …

The chemistry of diazo compounds has a long history. It has attracted attention because of
their various useful applications in organic synthesis. In particular, they have been used …

Compounds containing a chiral oxazoline ring have become one of the most successful,
versatile, and commonly used classes of ligands for asymmetric catalysis due to their ready …

Acyl transfer is at the heart of functional‐group transfers utilized both in nature and in the
chemical laboratory. Acylations are part of the natural assembly machinery for the …

The importance of chirality is well recognised, mainly in connection with the fact that nearly
all natural products are chiral and their physiological or pharmacological properties depend …

Pyrimidinium betaïnes (1), readily accessible via a straightforward modular synthesis from a
formamidine and a monosubstituted malonic acid, are readily deprotonated by n BuLi (or …

As an important class of heterocyclic scaffolds, 2‐imidazolines have attracted the attention
from the chemists interested in natural products, pharmaceutical chemistry, synthetic organic …

Complementary to enzymatic methods, catalytic enantioselective desymmetrisation of meso-
diols (EDMD) by small molecule catalysts has emerged as a powerful tool that provides …

Desymmetrization of diols is a powerful tool to the synthesis of chiral building blocks. Among
the different approaches to perform discrimination between both enantiotopic hydroxyl …