Mechanisms in aminocatalysis

Asymmetric Synthesis with Silicon-Based Bulky Amino Organocatalysts

(2010) Li-Wen Xu et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

The Elusive Enamine Intermediate in Proline-Catalyzed Aldol Reactions: NMR Detection, Formation Pathway, and Stabilization Trends

(2010) Markus B. Schmid et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Fluoro-Organocatalysts: Conformer Equivalents as a Tool for Mechanistic Studies

(2010) Christof Sparr et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Mechanistic Complexity in Organo-SOMO Activation

(2010) James J. Devery et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Enamine versus Oxazolidinone: What Controls Stereoselectivity in Proline-Catalyzed Asymmetric Aldol Reactions?

(2010) Akhilesh K. Sharma et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The role of double hydrogen bonds in asymmetric direct aldol reactions catalyzed by amino amide derivatives

(2010) Xiao-Hua Chen et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Brønsted Acid Assisted Regio- and Enantioselective Direct O-Nitroso Aldol Reaction Catalysed by α,α-Diphenylprolinol Trimethylsilyl Ether

(2010) Antonia Mielgo et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Experimental and Theoretical Conformational Analysis of 5-Benzylimidazolidin-4-one Derivatives - a ‘Playground’ for Studying Dispersion Interactions and a ‘Windshield-Wiper’ Effect in Organocatalysis

(2010) Dieter Seebach et al.   HELVETICA CHIMICA ACTA

Stereochemical Models for Discussing Additions toα,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes Organocatalyzed by Diarylprolinol or Imidazolidinone Derivatives - Is There an‘(E)/(Z)-Dilemma’?

(2010) Dieter Seebach et al.   HELVETICA CHIMICA ACTA

Asymmetric Intramolecular Aldol Reactions of Substituted 1,7-Dicarbonylic Compounds. A Mechanistic Study

(2010) F. J. S. Duarte et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Nature of Intermediates in Organo-SOMO Catalysis of α-Arylation of Aldehydes

(2010) Joann M. Um et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Unusual Reversal of Enantioselectivity in the Proline-Mediated α-Amination of Aldehydes Induced by Tertiary Amine Additives

(2010) Donna G. Blackmond et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Concerning the Mechanism of the FeCl3-Catalyzed α-Oxyamination of Aldehydes: Evidence for a Non-SOMO Activation Pathway

(2010) Jeffrey F. Van Humbeck et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Organocatalytic cascade reactions as a new tool in total synthesis

(2010) Christoph Grondal et al.   Nature Chemistry

Direct asymmetric vinylogous Michael addition of cyclic enones to nitroalkenes via dienamine catalysis

(2010) G. Bencivenni et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Coherent Mechanistic Rationale for Additive Effects and Autoinductive Behaviour in Proline-Mediated Reactions

(2009) Natalia Zotova et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Water in Stereoselective Organocatalytic Reactions

(2009) Michelangelo Gruttadauria et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Organocatalytic Regio- and Stereoselective Inverse-Electron-Demand Aza-Diels-Alder Reaction of α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes andN-Tosyl-1-aza-1,3-butadienes

(2009) Bo Han et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Cycle-Specific Organocascade Catalysis: Application to Olefin Hydroamination, Hydro-oxidation, and Amino-oxidation, and to Natural Product Synthesis

(2009) Bryon Simmons et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

How Does Electrostatic Activation Control Iminium-Catalyzed Cyclopropanations?

(2009) Sami Lakhdar et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Enantioselective Linchpin Catalysis by SOMO Catalysis: An Approach to the Asymmetric α-Chlorination of Aldehydes and Terminal Epoxide Formation

(2009) Muriel Amatore et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Organocatalysis—after the gold rush

(2009) Søren Bertelsen et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Density Functional Study of Proline-Catalyzed Intramolecular Baylis-Hillman Reactions

(2009) Filipe J. S. Duarte et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Structures of the Reactive Intermediates in Organocatalysis with Diarylprolinol Ethers

(2009) Uroš Grošelj et al.   HELVETICA CHIMICA ACTA

5-Benzyl-3-methylimidazolidin-4-one-Derived Reactive Intermediates of Organocatalysis - A Comforting Resemblance of X-Ray, NMR, and DFT Solid-Phase, Liquid-Phase, and Gas-Phase Structures

(2009) Uroš Grošelj et al.   HELVETICA CHIMICA ACTA

Theoretical studies of stereoselectivities in the direct organocatalytic Mannich reactions involving ketimine

(2009) Hongliang Li et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS A-CHEMICAL

Use of Bifunctional Ureas to Increase the Rate of Proline-Catalyzed α-Aminoxylations

(2009) Sarah L. Poe et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Enantioselective Aldehyde α-Nitroalkylation via Oxidative Organocatalysis

(2009) Jonathan E. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Enantioselective α-Trifluoromethylation of Aldehydes via Photoredox Organocatalysis

(2009) David A. Nagib et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Organocatalyzed direct asymmetric α-halogenation of carbonyl compounds

(2009) Mitsuhiro Ueda et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Crossed Intramolecular Rauhut−Currier-Type Reactions via Dienamine Activation

(2009) Eugenia Marqués-López et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Asymmetric Michael Addition of γ,γ-Disubstituted α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes to Nitroolefins via Dienamine Catalysis

(2009) Bo Han et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Mechanism of the α,α-diarylprolinol trimethylsilyl ether-catalyzed enantioselective C–C, C–N, C–F, C–S, and C–Br bond forming reactions

(2009) Chiong Teck Wong   TETRAHEDRON

Organocatalytic Asymmetric Hydrophosphination of α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes: Development, Mechanism and DFT Calculations

(2008) Ismail Ibrahem et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

A Short Route to α‐Tocopherol

(2008) Kegang Liu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Electrophilic Reactivities of α,β-Unsaturated Iminium Ions

(2008) Sami Lakhdar et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Amine-Catalyzed Cyclizations of Tethered α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds

(2008) Renata Marcia de Figueiredo et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Kinetics of Iminium Ion Catalysis

(2008) Gareth Evans et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Asymmetric Aminocatalysis-Gold Rush in Organic Chemistry

(2008) Paolo Melchiorre et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Asymmetric Organocatalysis: From Infancy to Adolescence

(2008) Alessandro Dondoni et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

α,α-Diarylprolinol Ethers: New Tools for Functionalization of Carbonyl Compounds

(2008) Antonia Mielgo et al.   Chemistry-An Asian Journal

Mechanistic Study of Intramolecular Aldol Reactions of Dialdehydes

(2008) Filipe J. S. Duarte et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Isolation and X-Ray Structures of Reactive Intermediates of Organocatalysis with Diphenylprolinol Ethers and with Imidazolidinones

(2008) Dieter Seebach et al.   HELVETICA CHIMICA ACTA

The advent and development of organocatalysis

(2008) David W. C. MacMillan   NATURE

Solution Phase, Solid State, and Theoretical Investigations on the MacMillan Imidazolidinone

(2008) John B. Brazier et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Merging Photoredox Catalysis with Organocatalysis: The Direct Asymmetric Alkylation of Aldehydes

(2008) D. A. Nicewicz et al.   SCIENCE

Catalysis of 3-Pyrrolidinecarboxylic Acid and Related Pyrrolidine Derivatives in Enantioselectiveanti-Mannich-Type Reactions:  Importance of the 3-Acid Group on Pyrrolidine for Stereocontrol

(2007) Haile Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY