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

BACKGROUND Since the discovery of the Grignard reaction more than a century ago,
carbonyl addition mediated by premetalated reagents has played a central role in synthetic …

Asymmetric hydrosilylation of prochiral alkenes followed by Tamao-Fleming oxidation is a
convenient method of synthesis of enantioenriched secondary alcohols. In this chapter …

Enantioenriched alcohols found in an array of bioactive natural products and
pharmaceutical agents are often synthesized by asymmetric nucleophilic addition to …

Playing Reversi with H and N: A copper‐catalyzed intermolecular regioselective
hydroamination of styrenes with polymethylhydrosiloxane and hydroxylamine derivatives …

Despite the impressive progress achieved in asymmetric catalysis during the last decade, an
increasing number of new catalysts, ligands, and applications are reported every year to …

Since the groundbreaking work by Gilman1 in the 1950s, cuprates have become versatile
tools in organic synthesis, more precisely, in 1, 4-addition reactions to R,-unsaturated …

Chiral tertiary alcohols and R-tertiary amines are important building blocks of naturally
occurring and artificial biologically active molecules. Although there are catalytic asymmetric …

Bisimine derivatives of salicylaldehyde with chiral diamines (salens) are privileged ligands
in asymmetric organometallic catalysis, which can be used in cooperation with …

There is a growing need in organic synthesis for efficient methodologies for the asymmetric
synthesis of quaternary carbon centres. One of the most attractive and straightforward …