C–H activation has surfaced as an increasingly powerful tool for molecular sciences, with
notable applications to material sciences, crop protection, drug discovery, and …

Conspectus Axially chiral compounds with rotationally constrained σ-bonds that exhibit
atropisomerism are lucrative synthetic targets because of their ubiquity in functional …

Axially chiral biaryl structures are unique systems encountered in various synthetic
compounds such as BINAP and BINOL, polymers, but also in natural products presenting a …

Highly enantioselective aerobic oxidative cross-coupling of 2-naphthols with broad substrate
scope was achieved using an iron (salan) complex as the catalyst. Enantiomeric excesses of …

The chiral bimetallic oxovanadium complexes have been designed for the enantioselective
oxidative coupling of 2-naphthols bearing various substituents at C6 and/or C7. The chirality …

The efficient and novel bifunctional organocatalyst for the enantioselective aza-Morita−
Baylis− Hillman (aza-MBH) reaction has been established with (S)-3-(N-isopropyl-N-3 …

The most relevant results published from 2006 up to 2010 are reported; they especially
regard the synthetic pathway and the structural and physico-chemical aspects of planar or …

Abstract A novel chiral 1, 5‐N, N‐bidentate ligand based on a spirocyclic pyrrolidine
oxazoline backbone was designed and prepared, and it coordinates CuBr in situ to form an …

BINOL derivatives have shown relevant biological activities and are important chiral ligands
and catalysts. Due to these properties, their asymmetric synthesis has attracted the interest …

Optically pure BINOL (1, 1′-bi-2-naphthol) and diversely substituted BINOLs are highly
valuable chiral motifs featuring axial chirality widely applied in various fields. Although …