Low molecular weight synthetic peptides have been demonstrated to be effective catalysts
for an increasingly wide array of asymmetric transformations. In many cases, these peptide …

Recent developments of stereoselective biocatalytic and chemocatalytic methods are
discussed. The review provides a guide to the use of biocatalytic methods in the area of …

Catalytic asymmetric cyanations of prochiral unsaturated compounds affording the
corresponding nitrile products in high enantiomeric excess (≥ 90% in general) are …

Chiral tertiary alcohols and R-tertiary amines are important building blocks of naturally
occurring and artificial biologically active molecules. Although there are catalytic asymmetric …

Insights into the role played by modified cinchona alkaloids in the Sharpless asymmetric
dihydroxylation inspired studies of modified cinchona alkaloids as chiral organic catalysts …

Catalytic asymmetric synthesis is providing chemists with new and powerful tools for the
efficient synthesis of complex molecules. While many of the most notable catalytic systems …

There is a growing need in organic synthesis for efficient methodologies for the asymmetric
synthesis of quaternary carbon centres. One of the most attractive and straightforward …

The addition of cyanide to a carbonyl compound to form a cyanohydrin is one of the
fundamental carbon-carbon bond forming reactions in organic chemistry1 and has …

Over the past two decades, significant advances have been made towards developing
chemically catalyzed asymmetric cyanohydrin syntheses. Preparations that were classically …

The design and development of new high‐performance catalysts for applications in
asymmetric catalytic reactions is of ongoing interest in organic chemistry. The combination of …