Life in our planet is highly dependent on plants as they are the primary source of food,
regulators of the atmosphere, and providers of a variety of materials. In this work, we review …

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 …

This Perspective presents an overview of catalytic enantioselective transformations that
allow convenient access to all stereoisomers of a given product with multiple stereogenic …

Recent developments in catalytic asymmetric aldol reactions have been summarized.
Enantioselective aldol reactions are important methods to synthesize β-hydroxy carbonyl …

Industrial medicinal chemistry departments the world over are charged with the rapid
delivery of small molecule new chemical entities (NCEs) into the screening process to …

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 …

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 …

The combination of transition metal catalysis and organocatalysis as a new and exciting
research area has attracted increasing attention as it can enable the development of …

γ-Butenolides, γ-butyrolactones, and derivatives, especially in enantiomerically pure form,
constitute the structural core of numerous natural products which display an impressive …

N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed enantioselective kinetic resolutions, dynamic kinetic
resolutions, and desymmetrization reactions are systematically reviewed. The content is …