Chiral primary β‐amino alcohols, constuting adjacently positioned Brønsted base and
Brønsted acid sites, are emerging as very valuable bifunctional organocatalysts in a wide …

Chiral aspects of benzimidazoles have been over-shadowed for a long time due to the large
number of reports on benzimidazoles in the medical field in numerous categories of …

Anthrones and analogues are structural cores shared by diverse pharmacologically active
natural and synthetic compounds. The sp2‐rich nature imposes inherent obstruction to …

Anthrones are key structural motifs in many natural products, bioactive compounds and
pharmaceutical chemicals. Earth-abundant-metal-catalyzed asymmetric functionalization of …

Enantioselective crossed aldol reactions of isatin derivatives and acetaldehyde have been
developed with a series of simple diamino alcohol catalysts to afford 3‐substituted 3 …

A design of a chiral organocatalyst is very important for obtaining of a chiral product with a
high optical purity in a catalytic asymmetric reaction. Recently, we developed a series of …

Optically active 2-azanorbornane-based organocatalysts were designed and synthesized,
and the catalytic activity of these catalysts in enantioselective aldol reactions of isatins with …

Enantioselective aldol reactions of various isatins with ketones using newly designed amino
amide organocatalysts were found to provide chiral 3‐substituted 3‐hydroxy‐2‐oxindoles in …

A new type of amino amide organocatalysts was designed and synthesized from
commercially available amino acids in easy steps. Their catalytic activities were examined in …

In this work, the compound 10-[(4-cyanobenzylidene)]-anthracen-9 (10 H)-one (1) has been
synthesized from the corresponding anthrone and 4-cyanobenzaldehyde. It has been …