The Role of Symmetry in Asymmetric Catalysis

Rhodium(I)/Diene-Catalyzed Addition Reactions of Arylborons with Ketones

(2012) Yuan-Xi Liao et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Asymmetric Synthesis and Metal Complexes of a C3-Symmetric P-Stereogenic Triphosphine, (R)-MeSi(CH2PMe(t-Bu))3 (MT-Siliphos)

(2012) Matthew F. Cain et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Harnessing Protein Symmetry for Enzyme Design

(2012) Bigna Wörsdörfer et al.   ACS Catalysis

Stitching Phospholanes Together Piece by Piece: New Modular Di- and Tridentate Stereodirecting Ligands

(2011) Julio Lloret Fillol et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Ligand Effect on Cobalt(II)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Cyclopropanation with Diazosulfones - Approaching High Stereoselectivity through Modular Design of D2-Symmetric Chiral Porphyrins

(2011) Shifa Zhu et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Catalytic effect and recyclability of imidazolium-tagged bis(oxazoline) based catalysts in asymmetric Henry reactions

(2011) Zhi-Ming Zhou et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

C3-Symmetric chiral trisimidazoline: the role of a third imidazoline and its application to the nitro Michael reaction and the α-amination of β-ketoesters

(2011) Kenichi Murai et al.   TETRAHEDRON

A novel C3-symmetric prolinol-squaramide catalyst for the asymmetric reduction of ketones by borane

(2011) Xiang-Fei Wu et al.   TETRAHEDRON-ASYMMETRY

Syntheses of Novel C2-Symmetric Chiral Bidentate Bis(N-heterocyclic carbene) Ligands and Their Molybdenum Complexes

(2010) Satoshi Anezaki et al.   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

C2-Symmetric Chiral Disulfoxide Ligands in Rhodium-Catalyzed 1,4-Addition: From Ligand Synthesis to the Enantioselection Pathway

(2010) Ronaldo Mariz et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

First X-ray Structure of aN-Naphthaloyl-Tethered Chiral Dirhodium(II) Complex: Structural Basis for Tether Substitution Improving Asymmetric Control in Olefin Cyclopropanation

(2010) Ashraf Ghanem et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

C3-Symmetric Proline-Functionalized Organocatalysts: Enantioselective Michael Addition Reactions

(2010) Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Computational Study of Cyclopropanation Reactions with Halodiazoacetates

(2010) Hanne Therese Bonge et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

C3-Symmetric Chiral Trisimidazoline: Design and Application to Organocatalyst

(2010) Kenichi Murai et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Catalytic Enantioselective Addition of Cyclic β-Keto Esters with Activated Olefins and N-Boc Imines Using ChiralC2-Symmetric Cationic Pd2+N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Diaqua Complexes

(2010) Zhen Liu et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

From C2- to D2-symmetry: atropos phosphoramidites with a D2-symmetric backbone as highly efficient ligands in Cu-catalyzed conjugate additions

(2010) Hui Zhang et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Chiral Crown Conformation of Rh2(S-PTTL)4: Enantioselective Cyclopropanation with α-Alkyl-α-diazoesters

(2009) Andrew DeAngelis et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Experimental Evidence for the All-Up Reactive Conformation of Chiral Rhodium(II) Carboxylate Catalysts: Enantioselective Synthesis ofcis-Cyclopropane α-Amino Acids

(2009) Vincent N. G. Lindsay et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Helical Triskelion Monophosphites as Ligands in Asymmetric Catalysis

(2009) Manfred T. Reetz et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Exploiting Threefold Symmetry in Asymmetric Catalysis: The Case of Tris(oxazolinyl)ethanes (“Trisox”)

(2008) Lutz H. Gade et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Tuning the Chiral Environment ofC2-Symmetric Diene Ligands: Development of 3,7-Disubstituted Bicyclo[3.3.1]nona-2,6-dienes

(2008) Ryo Shintani et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

High symmetry dirhodium(II) paddlewheel complexes as chiral catalysts

(2007) Jørn Hansen et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

C2 and C1 Symmetry of chiral auxiliaries in catalytic reactions on metal complexes

(2007) Valeri A. Pavlov   TETRAHEDRON