Excited (triplet) states offer a myriad of attractive synthetic pathways, including
cycloadditions, selective homolytic bond cleavages and strain-release chemistry …

Asymmetric catalysis is a major theme of research in contemporary synthetic organic
chemistry. The discovery of general strategies for highly enantioselective photochemical …

For molecules with a singlet ground state, the population of triplet states is mainly possible
(a) by direct excitation and subsequent intersystem crossing or (b) by energy transfer from …

Stereochemical enrichment of a racemic mixture by deracemization must overcome
unfavorable entropic effects as well as the principle of microscopic reversibility; recently …

Photoorganocatalysis has been recognised by the organic chemistry community as an
important part of photochemistry and catalysis. In general, aromatic ketones constitute key …

Creating, conserving and modifying the stereochemistry of organic compounds has been the
subject of significant research efforts in synthetic chemistry. Most synthetic routes are …

Sulfur can form diverse S (IV) and S (VI) stereogenic centers, of which some have gained
significant attention recently due to their increasing use as pharmacophores in drug …

A visible-light-mediated, enantioselective approach to axially chiral alkenes is described.
Starting from a racemic mixture, a major alkene enantiomer is formed due to selective triplet …

The photochemical deracemization of 2, 4-disubstituted 2, 3-butadienamides (allene
amides) was investigated both experimentally and theoretically. The reaction was catalyzed …

Deracemization, which converts a racemate into its single enantiomer without separation of
the intermediate, has gained renewed interest in asymmetric synthesis with its inherent …