Organocatalytic enantioselective desymmetrisation of achiral or meso compounds is a
powerful strategy for the construction of enantiomerically enriched complex molecules, often …

Sustainability in chemical synthesis is a major aspect of the current synthetic endeavors and,
therefore, mimicking the biological process in the laboratory nowadays has the highest …

The indanyl core is ubiquitous in a large variety of drugs and natural products. Importantly,
the ever-increasing demand for chiral catalysts bearing this scaffold calls for state of the art …

Indanedione structural motifs are widely distributed in natural products, pharmaceuticals and
functional materials. In particular, 1, 3-indanedione has attracted considerable attention due …

Organocatalysis, now running its second decade of life, is being considered one of the main
tools a synthetic chemist has to perform asymmetric catalysis. In this review the synthesis of …

Indanone-containing compounds are very important components of various natural
products, chemical drugs, agrochemicals and functionalized material fields. 1, 3 …

A convenient synthetic protocol for regioselective and diastereoselective construction of
complex dispiro-indanone-fluorenone-oxindole motifs was developed by the base-promoted …

NH4OAc mediated domino Knoevenagel/Diels–Alder cyclocondensation of β-ketosulfones 1
and o-formyl allylbenzenes 2 provides sulfonyl oxabenzo [3.3. 1] bicyclic core 4 in a …

The reactivity of o-propargyl alcohol benzaldehydes has been increased tremendously
toward Brønsted acid-catalyzed intramolecular electrophile intercepted Meyer–Schuster (M …

Abstract An asymmetric four‐component [5+ 1+ 1+ 1] formal cycloaddition reaction of 3‐
substituted 2‐cyclopentenones, activated methylene nucleophiles and two molecules of …