Highly Enantioselective Direct Synthesis of Endocyclic Vicinal Diamines through Chiral Ru(diamine)-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of 2,2′-Bisquinoline Derivatives

Ruthenium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrogenation of 1,8-Naphthyridine Derivatives

(2016) Wenpeng Ma et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Pushing the Limits of Aminocatalysis: Enantioselective Transformations of α-Branched β-Ketocarbonyls and Vinyl Ketones by Chiral Primary Amines

(2015) Long Zhang et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Pyrimidines

(2015) Ryoichi Kuwano et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Asymmetric Ruthenium-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of 2,6-Disubstituted 1,5-Naphthyridines: Access to Chiral 1,5-Diaza-cis-Decalins

(2015) Jianwei Zhang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Organocatalytic Reactions Enabled by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

(2015) Darrin M. Flanigan et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

A Highly Stereoselective Metal-Free Hydrogenation of Diimines for the Synthesis of Cis-Vicinal Diamines

(2015) Xiaxia Zhu et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Catalytic Diamination of Olefins via N–N Bond Activation

(2014) Yingguang Zhu et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Pyridinium Salts with an Iridium Phosphole Catalyst

(2014) Mingxin Chang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Metal-free aminoamidiniumation employing N-iodosuccinimide: facile syntheses of bicyclic imidazolidiniums and cyclic vicinal diamines

(2014) Jun Zhang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Homogenous Pd-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Unprotected Indoles: Scope and Mechanistic Studies

(2014) Ying Duan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

An overview of N-heterocyclic carbenes

(2014) Matthew N. Hopkinson et al.   NATURE

Ruthenium-NHC-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Indolizines: Access to Indolizidine Alkaloids

(2013) Nuria Ortega et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Asymmetric Ruthenium-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of 2- and 2,9-Substituted 1,10-Phenanthrolines

(2013) Tianli Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Enantioselective Iridium-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of 1- and 3-Substituted Isoquinolinium Salts

(2013) Zhi-Shi Ye et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Isoquinolinium Salts Catalyzed by Chiral Iridium Complexes: Direct Synthesis for Optically Active 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroisoquinolines

(2013) Atsuhiro Iimuro et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Robust cyclometallated Ir(iii) catalysts for the homogeneous hydrogenation of N-heterocycles under mild conditions

(2013) Jianjun Wu et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Metal-Free Borane-Catalyzed Highly Stereoselective Hydrogenation of Pyridines

(2013) Yongbing Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Enantioselective Iridium-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of 3,4-Disubstituted Isoquinolines

(2012) Lei Shi et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Iridium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Pyridinium Salts

(2012) Zhi-Shi Ye et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Vicinal Diamines by Organocatalytic Asymmetric Mannich Reaction of N-Protected Aminoacetaldehydes: Formal Synthesis of (−)-Agelastatin A

(2012) Taichi Kano et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Novel Ligand for the Enantioselective Ruthenium-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis

(2011) Axel Kannenberg et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Direct Asymmetric Hydrosilylation of Indoles: Combined Lewis Base and Brønsted Acid Activation

(2011) You-Cai Xiao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Ligand-Controlled Highly Regioselective and Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Quinoxalines Catalyzed by Ruthenium N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes

(2011) Slawomir Urban et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Heteroarenes and Arenes

(2011) Duo-Sheng Wang et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Chiral NHC–metal-based asymmetric catalysis

(2011) Feijun Wang et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Chiral 1,1′-Bi(tetrahydroisoquinoline)-Type Diamines as Efficient Ligands for Nickel-Catalysed Enantioselective Michael Addition to Nitroalkenes

(2011) Kristina Wilckens et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Diastereoselectively Switchable Enantioselective Trapping of Carbamate Ammonium Ylides with Imines

(2011) Jun Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Highly Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Quinolines Using Phosphine-Free Chiral Cationic Ruthenium Catalysts: Scope, Mechanism, and Origin of Enantioselectivity

(2011) Tianli Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Convergent Asymmetric Disproportionation Reactions: Metal/Brønsted Acid Relay Catalysis for Enantioselective Reduction of Quinoxalines

(2011) Qing-An Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Highly Enantioselective Partial Hydrogenation of Simple Pyrroles: A Facile Access to Chiral 1-Pyrrolines

(2011) Duo-Sheng Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis of ChiralN-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands with Rigid Backbones and Application to the Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Intramolecular α-Arylation of Amides

(2011) Lantao Liu et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

The first syntheses of enantiopure 2,2′-biindoline

(2010) Steven M. Wales et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Bifunctional Asymmetric Catalysis: Amplification of Brønsted Basicity Can Orthogonally Increase the Reactivity of a Chiral Brønsted Acid

(2010) Tyler A. Davis et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Pd-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Unprotected Indoles Activated by Brønsted Acids

(2010) Duo-Sheng Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis and Structures of Fused N-Heterocylic Carbenes and Their Rhodium Complexes

(2010) Jean Li et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

pH-Regulated Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Quinolines in Water

(2009) Chao Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Quinoxalines with Diphosphinite Ligands: A Practical Synthesis of Enantioenriched, Substituted Tetrahydroquinoxalines

(2009) Weijun Tang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Late Transition Metal Catalysis

(2009) Silvia Díez-González et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation of 5-Membered Heteroaromatics

(2009) Ryoichi Kuwano   HETEROCYCLES

Metal-catalysed 1,2-diamination reactions

(2009) Francesca Cardona et al.   Nature Chemistry

An Efficient Synthesis of Chiral Diamines with Rigid Backbones: Application in Enantioselective Michael Addition of Malonates to Nitroalkenes

(2009) Qiming Zhu et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Neutral and Cationic Iridium(I) Complexes Bearing Chiral Phenanthroline-Derived Benzimidazolylidenes: Synthetic, Structural, and Catalytic Studies

(2009) Costa Metallinos et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

An Advance on ExploringN-tert-Butanesulfinyl Imines in Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Amines

(2008) Guo-Qiang Lin et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Hydrogenation of Quinolines Using a Recyclable Phosphine-Free Chiral Cationic Ruthenium Catalyst: Enhancement of Catalyst Stability and Selectivity in an Ionic Liquid

(2008) Haifeng Zhou et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Development of Biisoquinoline-Based Chiral Diaminocarbene Ligands:  Enantioselective SN2‘ Allylic Alkylation Catalyzed by Copper−Carbene Complexes

(2008) Hwimin Seo et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Catalytic C−H Amination for the Preparation of Substituted 1,2-Diamines

(2008) David E. Olson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Stereospecific Synthesis ofC2Symmetric Diamines from the Mother Diamine by Resonance-Assisted Hydrogen-Bond Directed Diaza-Cope Rearrangement

(2008) Hyunwoo Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Highly Diastereoselective Switchable Enantioselective Mannich Reaction of Glycine Derivatives with Imines

(2008) Xiao-Xia Yan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Asymmetric Reduction of 2- and 2,9-Substituted 1,10-Phenanthrolines

(2008) Costa Metallinos et al.   SYNLETT

Chiral Tertiary Diamines in Asymmetric Synthesis

(2007) Jean-Claude Kizirian   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation of 2,3,5-Trisubstituted Pyrroles

(2007) Ryoichi Kuwano et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Asymmetric Synthesis ofC2-Symmetric Vicinal Diamines via Reductive Dimerization ofN-Acylpyridinium and Related Salts

(2007) Pandi Bharathi et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS