The demand for more efficient ways to construct complex chemical structures from simple,
readily available precursors continues unabated. A very attractive way to meet this demand …

Organic chemists have always been fascinated by the cyclopropane subunit. 1 The smallest
cycloalkane is found as a basic structural element in a wide range of naturally occurring …

R-amino acid reductions, allow entry to other classes of compounds that are also useful as
the source of chiral centers, as with R-amino aldehydes, that, in turn, can be used in a …

Three-membered carbocycles are extremely important versatile building blocks for organic
chemistry. Their unique structural and electronic properties give rise to an array of very …

Using rational design, an engineered myoglobin‐based catalyst capable of catalyzing the
cyclopropanation of aryl‐substituted olefins with catalytic proficiency (up to 46 800 …

Metal-catalyzed reactions have made a great contribution to the recent growth of organic
synthesis, and a variety of synthetic methods have been reported using mainly group 8 …

The rhodium N-(arylsulfonyl) prolinate catalyzed decomposition of vinyldiazomethanes in
the presence of alkenes leads to a very general method for the synthesis of functionalized …

Engineered hemoproteins have recently emerged as promising systems for promoting
asymmetric cyclopropanations, but variants featuring predictable, complementary …

After the second edition introduced first density functional theory aspects, this third edition
expands on this topic and offers unique practice in molecular mechanics calculations and …

A multitude of organic transformations catalyzed by dirhodium (II)(Rh2) complexes are
thought to proceed via the intermediacy of highly reactive, electrophilic carbenoid …