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Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis

This cluster of papers covers recent advances in asymmetric catalysis, including organocatalysis, enantioselective reactions, chiral catalysts, asymmetric synthesis, C-C bond formation, spirooxindoles, hydrogen bonding, transition metal catalysis, quaternary stereocenters, and cascade reactions.

78,940 works

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Most cited

  1. Aryl−Aryl Bond Formation One Century after the Discovery of the Ullmann Reaction

    Jwanro Hassan, Marc Sévignon, Christel Gozzi, Emmanuelle Schulz · 2002 · Chemical Reviews · 3,645 citations

  2. Proline-Catalyzed Direct Asymmetric Aldol Reactions

    Benjamin List, Richard A. Lerner, Carlos F. Barbas · 2000 · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2,853 citations

  3. Asymmetric Enamine Catalysis

    Santanu Mukherjee, Jung Woon Yang, S.D. Hoffmann, Benjamin List · 2007 · Chemical Reviews · 2,847 citations

  4. Asymmetric Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylations: Applications in Total Synthesis

    Barry M. Trost, Matthew L. Crawley · 2003 · Chemical Reviews · 2,841 citations

  5. In the Golden Age of Organocatalysis

    Peter I. Dalko, Lionel Moisan · 2004 · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2,581 citations

  6. The advent and development of organocatalysis

    David W. C. MacMillan · 2008 · Nature · 2,397 citations

Most recent

  1. Enantioselective Organocatalytic Construction of N -Bridged Tricyclic Normorphan Skeleton: Application to the Total Synthesis of (+)-Peduncularine

    So Hyun Jung, Ju Ha Baek, So Young Jang, Yongseok Kwon · 2026 · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 0 citations

  2. Catalyst-controlled regiodivergence in enantioselective synthesis of spirocyclic γ- versus δ-lactams

    Shao-Hua Wu, Fan Gong, Yang-Bo Bi, Yi-Ze Bai · 2026 · Nature Communications · 0 citations

  3. Organocatalytic Enantioselective [3+2] Cycloaddition of para ‐Quinamines with Cyclic N ‐Sulfonyl Ketimines: Access to Imidazolidine‐Fused Benzosultam Derivatives

    Ting Xiao, Feng Lv, Weiwei Xia, Shiru Li · 2026 · Chinese Journal of Chemistry · 0 citations

  4. Recent Advances in Enantioselective Desymmetrization Enabled by Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalysis

    Dekun Zhang, Dekun Zhang, Bubin Xu, Yuxiu Yang · 2026 · Chirality · 0 citations

  5. Asymmetric Mannich Reactions Promoted by a Bifunctional Charge-Activated Thiourea Catalyst

    Josiah Nisly, Steven Kass · 2026 · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 0 citations

  6. A Scalable Stereoselective Synthetic Route to the Valuable Chiral Epoxyketone Building Block (R)-N-(tert-butyloxycarbonyl)-5-methyl-1-[(S)-2-methyloxiran-2-yl]-1-oxohex-4-en-2-amine

    Yunhao Jiang, Fangyi Xiang, Yijia Zheng, Xiaopeng Chen · 2026 · SynOpen · 0 citations

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