Traditional organic synthesis relies heavily on organic solvents for a multitude of tasks,
including dissolving the components and facilitating chemical reactions, because many …

Hydrogenation is one of the most fundamental transformations in organic synthesis, and its
industrial applications span from fine chemicals to pharmaceuticals synthesis. 1− 3 Direct …

Water is the solvent used by nature for biological chemistry. Considering the enormous
variety of biological organic synthetic pathways and the complicated molecular structures …

The organometallic approach is one of the most active topics in catalysis. The application of
NH functionality in organometallic catalysis has become an important and attractive concept …

In this review, we consider the main processes for the asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of
ketones from 2008 up today. The most effective organometallic compounds (derived from …

Asymmetric transfer hydrogenation has become a practically useful tool in reduction
chemistry in the last decade or so. This was largely triggered by the seminal work of Noyori …

Iridium-based asymmetric reduction of ketones to chiral enantiomerically enriched alcohols
has recently attracted attention by a number of research groups and interest in this area is …

Heterogeneous palladium catalysts, which are supported on ordered mesoporous silica−
carbon nanocomposites, have been applied in water-mediated coupling reactions of …

1, 2, 3, 4-Tetrahydroquinolines exist as key structural elements in many natural products and
have found broad commercial application.[1] In particular, optically pure …

This Review deals with the asymmetric hydrogenation and asymmetric transfer
hydrogenation of imines and some nitrogen‐containing heteroaromatic compounds to afford …