Noyori–Ikariya‐type ruthenium (II)‐catalysts for asymmetric transfer hydrogenation (ATH)
have been known for 25 years and have proved as a well‐behaved and user‐friendly …

Based on the ever-increasing demand for enantiomerically pure compounds, the
development of efficient, atom-economical, and sustainable methods to produce chiral …

The global emergence of antifungal resistance threatens the limited arsenal of available
treatments and emphasizes the urgent need for alternative antifungal agents. Targeting …

Although simple γ-lactones and γ-lactams have received considerable attention from the
synthetic community, particularly due to their relevance in biological and medicinal contexts …

The stereoselective sequential spirocyclopropanation/Cloke–Wilson rearrangement
reactions have been developed to synthesize γ-butyrolactones using alkylidene Meldrum's …

Asymmetric catalytic transformations of N‐unprotected cyclic carboxyimides such as
succinimides, hydantoins, oxazolidinediones, and glitazones, is a powerful way of directly …

Various syntheses of different paraconic acids over the last seventeen years have been
abstracted here. Paraconic acids have either a methylene or methyl group at the 4‐position …

Combining biological and small‐molecule catalysts under a chemoenzymatic manifold
presents a series of significant advantages to the synthetic community. We report herein the …

The Cu-catalyzed asymmetric conjugate addition of trialkenylboroxines to enone diesters is
reported. This operationally simple and scalable reaction proceeded at room temperature …

Herein we report on the development and application of chemoenzymatic Dynamic Kinetic
Asymmetric Transformation (DYKAT) of α‐substituted β‐hydroxyketones (β‐HKs), using …