Carboxylic acids have gained more and more importance as versatile and renewable
starting materials for the formation of platform molecules or high-value chemicals. Many …

Chiral, metal-free Brønsted bases have been demonstrated capable of catalyzing several
types of C–C and C–X bond-forming reactions with high chemical and stereochemical …

This article reviews the applications of cinchona alkaloids as asymmetric catalysts. In the last
few years, characterized by the resurgence of interest in asymmetric organocatalysis …

The organocatalytic enantioselective decarboxylative addition of malonic acid half thioesters
to ketimines derived from isatins by using N‐heteroarenesulfonyl cinchona alkaloid amides …

Catalytic decarboxylative reactions are attractive as biomimetic reactions and
environmentally friendly reaction processes. In this review, the origin and recent …

This review examines recent advances in asymmetric catalytic decarboxylative addition
reactions which have become a powerful method to form C C and C X bond using …

Despite the growing importance of organofluorines as pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals,
the stereoselective introduction of fluorine into many prominent classes of natural products …

Significance: An organocatalytic decarboxylative 1, 4-addition of malonic acid half-thioesters
(MAHTs) to nitroolefins is reported. Several ureafunctionalized cinchona alkaloids were …

Highly enantioselective biomimetic Michael addition reactions of malonic acid half thioesters
(MAHTs) to a variety of nitroolefins, affording the optically active γ‐amino acid precursors …

The first catalytic asymmetric decarboxylative Mannich-type reaction between aldimines and
cyanocarboxylic acids was developed. α, α, β-Trisubstituted β-amino nitriles containing …