Asymmetric synthesis: the essentials

Chiral auxiliaries in asymmetric synthesis / David A. Evans, Gunter Helmchen and Magnus Ruping

Asymmetric epoxidation of pentadienols / Reinhard Bruckner

Asymmetric synthesis using sulfur-nitrogen reagents / Franklin A. Davis

Asymmetric syntheses with SAMP-/RAMP-hydrazones / Dieter Enders and Wolfgang Bettray

Asymmetric allylation reactions / Reinhard W. Hoffmann

Carbohydrates as chiral auxiliaries / Horst Kunz

use of chiral oxazolines in early C-C bond forming reactions / Albert I. Meyers

Asymmetric synthesis of amines and amino acids from amines / Shun-Ichi Murahashi and Yasushi Imada

Metal-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis / Masakatsu Shibasaki and Shigeki Matsunaga

Catalytic asymmetric sulfur ylide mediated epoxidation of carbonyl compounds / Varinder Aggarwal

Asymmetric Baeyer-Villiger reactions / Carsten Bolm

Planar chiral ligands based on [2,2]paracyclophanes / Stefan Brase

Asymmetric syntheses of 3-(trans-2-nitrocyclopropyl)alanine and 3-(trans-2-aminocyclopropyl)alanine / Armin de Meijere and Oleg V. Larionov

Copper-bis(oxazoline) catalyzed synthesis of [beta]-lactams-enantioselective reaction of alkynes with nitrones / David A. Evans, Florian Kleinbeck and Magnus Ruping

Catalytic asymmetric conjugate addition reactions of organometallic reagents / Fernando Lopez and Ben L. Feringa

Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of allylic alcohols via dynamic kinetic resolution / Hans-Joachim Gais

Asymmetric cross-coupling reactions / Tamio Hayashi

Asymmetric allylic substitutions / Gunter Helmchen

Asymmetric homoaldol reactions / Dieter Hoppe

Asymmetric vinylogous Mukaiyama aldol reaction / Markus Kalesse and Jorma Hassfeld

Chiral lewis acid catalysis in aqueous media / Shu Kobayashi and Chikako Ogawa

Asymmetric epoxidation of non-activated olefins / Kazuhiro Matsumoto and Tsutomu Katsuki

Chiral carbonyl lewis acid complexes in asymmetric synthesis / Keiji Maruoka and Takashi Ooi

ZACA reactions : Zr-catalyzed asymmetric carboalumination of alkenes / Ei-ichi Negishi, Bo Liang, Tibor Novak and Ze Tan

Bisoxazolines - a privileged ligand class for asymmetric catalysis / Andreas Pfaltz

Enantioselective cycloaddition reactions catalyzed by hydrogen bonding / Viresh H. Rawal and Avinash N. Thadani

Direct catalytic asymmetric aldol-tishchenko reaction / Masakatsu Shibasaki and Takashi Ohshima

Asymmetric heck and other palladium-catalyzed reactions / Lutz F. Tietze and Florian Lotz

Asymmetric catalysis with chiral acid / Hisashi Yamamoto

Biocatalysis and organocatalysis : asymmetric synthesis inspired by nature / Benjamin List

Enantioselective photochemical reactions / Thorsten Bach

Asymmetric catalysis via dynamic kinetic resolution / Jan-E. Backvall

Catalytic asymmetric epoxidation of enones and related compounds / Albrecht Berkessel

Kinetic investigations of the Soai autocatalytic reaction / Donna G. Blackmond

Planar-chiral heterocycles as enantioselective organocatalysts / Gregory Fu

organocatalytic approach to optically active six-membered rings / Karl Anker Jorgensen

Non-linear effects in asymmetric catalysis / Henri B. Kagan

Asymmetric organocatalysis / Steven V. Ley

Directed evolution of enzymes for asymmetric syntheses / Manfred T. Reetz

Asymmetric autocatalysis and its implications in the origin of chiral homogeneity of biomolecules / Kenso Soai and Tsuneomi Kawasaki

Asymmetric synthesis using deoxyribose-5-phosphate aldolase / Chi-Huey Wong and William A. Greenberg

Asymmetric reactions in total synthesis / K. C. Nicolaou and Paul G. Bulger

Ring rearrangement metathesis (RRM) in alkaloid synthesis / Nicole Holub and Siegfried Blechert

Asymmetric synthesis of biaryls by the 'lactone method' / Gerhard Bringmann, Tanja Gulder and Tobias A. M. Gulder

Asymmetric synthesis of merrilactone A / Samuel J. Danishefsky

Asymmetric synthesis of cyclic ketal and spiroaminal-containing natural products / Craig J. Forsyth

Case studies at the metathesis/asymmetric synthesis interface / Alois Furstner

Asymmetric synthesis of amino acids by rhodium and ruthenium catalysis / Jean Pierre Genet

Asymmetric syntheses of pheromones / Kenji Mori

Total synthesis of polyketides using asymmetric aldol reactions / Ian Paterson

Asymmetric synthesis on the solid phase / Torben Lessmann and Herbert Waldmann

Asymmetric synthesis in industry / Herbert Hugl

Industrial application of enantioselective catalysis / Hans-Ulrich Blaser

Crystallization-induced diastereoselection for the synthesis of aprepitant / Karel M. Jos Brands, Philip Pye and Kai Rossen

Combinatorial methods in asymmetric syntheses / Stefan Dahmen

Biocatalytic production of optically active amines / Klaus Ditrich

Monsanto L-Dopa process / William S. Knowles

Asymmetric hydrogenation through metal-ligand bifunctional catalysis / Ryoji Noyori, Takeshi Ohkuma, Christian A. Sandoval and Kilian Muniz

Many ways are leading to Rome - today's variety of competing synthetic methods in industry / Andreas Job and Andreas Stolle.