This Review compiles the evolution, mechanistic understanding, and more recent advances
in enantioselective Pd-catalyzed allylic substitution and decarboxylative and oxidative allylic …

Enantioconvergent catalysis has expanded asymmetric synthesis to new methodologies
able to convert racemic compounds into a single enantiomer. This review covers recent …

Hydrofunctionalisation and difunctionalisation of dienes, allenes, and alkynes are widely
utilized in the synthesis of valuable allylic compounds. In the past decades, asymmetric …

Metal-hydride-catalyzed hydroalkylation of 1, 3-dienes with enolizable carbonyl compounds
is an atom-and step-economical method for preparing chiral molecules with allylic …

Quaternary carbon stereocentres—carbon atoms to which four distinct carbon substituents
are attached—are common features of molecules found in nature. However, before recent …

Summary Asymmetric coupling of 1, 3-dienes with carbonyl compounds is one of the most
powerful tools for atom-economical construction of the Csp 3–Csp 3 bond. Although many …

As a fundamental and synthetically useful C− C bond formation reaction, the aldol reaction is
one of the most versatile transformations in organic synthesis. However, despite extensive …

The straightforward construction of stereogenic centers bearing unprotected functional
groups, as in nature, has been a persistent pursuit in synthetic chemistry. Abundant …

This review highlights a number of additives that can be used to make asymmetric reactions
perfect. Without changing other reaction conditions, simply adding additives can lead to …

Conspectus We present a new and efficient strategy for the atom-economic transformation of
both alkynes and allenes to allylic functionalized structures via a Rh-catalyzed …