Diyne desymmetrization

Ulrich Hennecke and co-workers at the Universitat Munster have reported in JAC on a desymmetrization of a diyne.

JACS paper

Cinchona alkaloid catalyzed proton transfer

Jin-Pei Cheng and co-workers from Nankai University have reported in JACS on a biomimetic proton transfer.

JACS paper

[3,3]-Sigmatropic

Laszlo Kurti and co-workers from UT Southwestern have reported in JACS on a [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement approach to access BINAM derivatives using a phosphoric acid catalyst.

JACS paper

Which point group is that organocatalyst?

Hiromichi Fujioka and co-workers from Osaka University have reported in Organic Letters on a kinetic resolution of a  bromo-carboxylic acid using a C3-symmetric organocatalyst.

OL paper

N,N-Diphenylaminomethylene block

Keiji Maruoka and co-workers have reported in JACS on an approach to form an alpha-quaternary chiral carbon center.

JACS paper

Hydroamination via organocatalysis

Eric Jacobsen and co-workers published in JACS on a hydroamination using a thiourea catalyst.  It’s refreshing to see a hydroamination without a transition metal.

JACS paper

Asymmetric epoxidation

Benjamin List and co-workers have reported in JACS on their studies of cinchona alkaloid catalyzed asymmetric epoxidation of activated olefins.

JACS paper

Kinetic resolution with phosphoric acid

William Roush and co-workers have reported in Org Lett on a kinetic resolution using phosphoric acid.

OL paper

Phosphine catalyzed C-N bond formation

Greg Fu and co-workers reported on a C2-symmetric phosphine catalyst to

ACIE paper

Cinchona alkaloid derived catalyst for epoxidation

Norio Shibata and co-workers from the Nagoya Institute of Technology have reported in ACIE on an enantioselective epoxidation reaction using a cinchona alkaloid derived catalyst.

ACIE paper