Expanding the scope of Metal-Free enantioselective allylic substitutions: Anthrones

Enantioselective transition metal-catalyzed allylic

tions have been developed as fundamentally important crosscoupling reactions. In general, the heteroatom nucleophiles in these reactions have been largely limited to alkylamines, anilines, carboxylates and phenols. Our laboratory is interested in searching the synthetically useful heteroatom nucleophiles for the synthesis of functionalized allylic compounds (Fig. 1). As our successful examples,...

Highly enantioselective Cu-catalysed allylic substitutions with Grignard reagents.

A catalyst system able to perform highly enantioselective Cu-catalysed allylic alkylations with Grignard reagents is described.

The Scope of Man's Free Will

Organocatalytic strategies for enantioselective metal-free reductions

2708 | Catal. Sci. Technol., 2014, 4, 2708–2723 This journal is © The R Sergio Rossi Sergio Rossi was born in Bergamo in 1983. In 2007 he obtained his Laurea in Chemistry, at the University of Milan, Italy and in 2010 he completed his doctoral studies on the activation of trichlorosilyl derivatives with chiral Lewis bases under the supervision of Prof. Benaglia, at the University of Milan. In 2...

Expanding the Scope of Dishonesty