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

Asymmetric aldol reactions are a powerful method for the construction of carbon–carbon
bonds in an enantioselective fashion. Historically this reaction has been performed in a …

An electrochemical asymmetric coupling of secondary acyclic amines with ketones via a
Shono-type oxidation has been described, affording the corresponding amino acid …

Catalysis with chiral secondary amines (asymmetric aminocatalysis) has become a well‐
established and powerful synthetic tool for the chemo‐and enantioselective functionalization …

After an initial period of validating asymmetric organocatalysis by using a wide range of
important model reactions that constitute the essential tools of organic synthesis, the time …

Reported herein is an unprecedented photocatalytic asymmetric cross‐dehydrogenative
coupling reaction between tertiary amines and simple ketones, and it proceeds by …

Alongside enantioselective catalysis, synthetic chemists are often confronted by the
challenge of achieving catalyst control over the relative configuration to stereodivergently …

Catalytic asymmetric electrochemical C–H functionalization of simple ketones has been
developed. The transformation is realized by the combination of electrochemical oxidation …

Functionalization of dicarboxylate linkers with proline was used to generate catalytically
active metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) for diastereoselective aldol addition. Due to high …

Enzymes are the core for biological transformations in nature. Their structures and functions
have drawn enormous attention from biologists as well as chemists since last century. The …