Metal stereogenicity in asymmetric transition metal catalysis

PS Steinlandt, L Zhang, E Meggers - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chiral transition metal catalysts represent a powerful and economic tool for implementing
stereocenters in organic synthesis, with the metal center providing a strong chemical …

Enantioselective Synthesis of Atropisomers via Vinylidene ortho-Quinone Methides (VQMs)

W Qin, Y Liu, H Yan - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Atropisomers, arising from conformational restriction, are inherently chiral due
to the intersecting dissymmetric planes. Since there are numerous applications of …

Multiplicative enhancement of stereoenrichment by a single catalyst for deracemization of alcohols

L Wen, J Ding, L Duan, S Wang, Q An, H Wang, Z Zuo - Science, 2023 - science.org
Stereochemical enrichment of a racemic mixture by deracemization must overcome
unfavorable entropic effects as well as the principle of microscopic reversibility; recently …

Organocatalytic reactions enabled by N-heterocyclic carbenes

DM Flanigan, F Romanov-Michailidis, NA White… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
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Holistic prediction of enantioselectivity in asymmetric catalysis

JP Reid, MS Sigman - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
When faced with unfamiliar reaction space, synthetic chemists typically apply the reported
conditions (reagents, catalyst, solvent and additives) of a successful reaction to a desired …

Aerobic copper-catalyzed organic reactions

SE Allen, RR Walvoord, R Padilla-Salinas… - Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The chemistry of copper is extremely rich because it can easily access Cu0, CuI, CuII, and
CuIII oxidation states allowing it to act through one-electron or two-electron processes. As a …

Copper hydride catalyzed hydroamination of alkenes and alkynes

MT Pirnot, YM Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past few years, CuH‐catalyzed hydroamination has been discovered and
developed as a robust and conceptually novel approach for the synthesis of …

Enantioselective catalysis of photochemical reactions

R Brimioulle, D Lenhart, MM Maturi… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The nature of the excited state renders the development of chiral catalysts for
enantioselective photochemical reactions a considerable challenge. The absorption of a …

Asymmetric photoredox transition-metal catalysis activated by visible light

H Huo, X Shen, C Wang, L Zhang, P Röse, LA Chen… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Asymmetric catalysis is seen as one of the most economical strategies to satisfy the growing
demand for enantiomerically pure small molecules in the fine chemical and pharmaceutical …

Rhodium‐Catalyzed Atroposelective Access to Axially Chiral Olefins via C− H Bond Activation and Directing Group Migration

R Mi, H Chen, X Zhou, N Li, D Ji… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Axially chiral open‐chain olefins represent an underexplored class of chiral platform. In this
report, two classes of tetrasubstituted axially chiral acyclic olefins have been accessed in …