First Example of the Intermolecular Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation of Hydroxyacrylates: Synthesis of All-Carbon α-Aryl Quaternary Aldehydes

Total synthesis of (−)-kaitocephalin

(2013) Wonchul Lee et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Enantioselective Synthesis ofAmaryllidaceaeAlkaloids (+)-Vittatine, (+)-epi-Vittatine, and (+)-Buphanisine

(2013) Meng-Xue Wei et al.   Chemistry-An Asian Journal

The Construction of All-Carbon Quaternary Stereocenters by Use of Pd-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation Reactions in Total Synthesis

(2013) Allen Y. Hong et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

General Approach for Preparing Epidithiodioxopiperazines from Trioxopiperazine Precursors: Enantioselective Total Syntheses of (+)- and (−)-Gliocladine C, (+)-Leptosin D, (+)-T988C, (+)-Bionectin A, and (+)-Gliocladin A

(2013) John E. DeLorbe et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Catalytic Asymmetric Insertion of Diazoesters into Aryl-CHO Bonds: Highly Enantioselective Construction of Chiral All-Carbon Quaternary Centers

(2013) Lizhu Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Copper-Catalyzed One-Pot Trifluoromethylation/Aryl Migration/Desulfonylation and C(sp2)–N Bond Formation of Conjugated Tosyl Amides

(2013) Wangqing Kong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Facile Approach for the Asymmetric Synthesis of Oxindoles with a 3-Sulfenyl-Substituted Quaternary Stereocenter

(2013) Xiaowei Dou et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Pd- and Mo-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation

(2012) Barry M. Trost   ORGANIC PROCESS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Stereoselective Construction of Quaternary Carbon Stereocenters via a Semipinacol Rearrangement Strategy

(2011) Baomin Wang et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Direct Asymmetric α-Allylation of Aldehydes with Simple Allylic Alcohols Enabled by the Concerted Action of Three Different Catalysts

(2011) Gaoxi Jiang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Enantioselective synthesis of all-carbon quaternary stereogenic centers in acyclic systems

(2011) Jaya Prakash Das et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Transition Metal-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Allylation and Benzylation Reactions

(2011) Jimmie D. Weaver et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Molybdenum-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation of 3-Alkyloxindoles: Reaction Development and Applications

(2011) Barry M. Trost et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Asymmetric Synthesis of Benzylic Quaternary Difunctionalized Carbons Mediated by a Remote Sulfinyl Group

(2011) José Luis García Ruano et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)-Gliocladine C: Convergent Construction of Cyclotryptamine-Fused Polyoxopiperazines and a General Approach for Preparing Epidithiodioxopiperazines from Trioxopiperazine Precursors

(2011) John E. DeLorbe et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Enantioselective construction of quaternary N-heterocycles by palladium-catalysed decarboxylative allylic alkylation of lactams

(2011) Douglas C. Behenna et al.   Nature Chemistry

Palladium-catalyzed asymmetric alkylation in the synthesis of cyclopentanoid and cycloheptanoid core structures bearing all-carbon quaternary stereocenters

(2011) Allen Y. Hong et al.   TETRAHEDRON

Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Oxindoles Bearing a Tetrasubstituted Stereocenter at the C-3 Position

(2010) Feng Zhou et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Organocatalytic asymmetric Michael addition of α-aryl cyclopentanones to nitroolefins for construction of adjacent quaternary and tertiary stereocenters

(2010) Xiu-Qin Dong et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Metal-catalyzed asymmetric conjugate addition reaction: formation of quaternary stereocenters

(2010) Christine Hawner et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Highly enantioselective synthesis and cellular evaluation of spirooxindoles inspired by natural products

(2010) Andrey P. Antonchick et al.   Nature Chemistry

Effective construction of quaternary stereocenters by highly enantioselective α-amination of branched aldehydes

(2010) Ji-Ya Fu et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Highly Enantioselective Intramolecular Cyanoamidation: (+)-Horsfiline, (−)-Coerulescine, and (−)-Esermethole

(2010) Venkata Jaganmohan Reddy et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

A general enantioselective route to the chamigrene natural product family

(2010) David E. White et al.   TETRAHEDRON

RETRACTED: Catalytic C–CN activation and asymmetric cyanoamidation of alkenes: total syntheses of (+)-horsfiline, (−)-coerulescine, and (−)-esermethole

(2010) Venkata Jaganmohan Reddy et al.   TETRAHEDRON

Asymmetric Synthesis of All-Carbon Benzylic Quaternary Stereocenters via Conjugate Addition to Alkylidene and Indenylidene Meldrum’s Acids

(2009) Ashraf Wilsily et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Sodium Tetraarylborates as Effective Nucleophiles in Rhodium/Diene-Catalyzed 1,4-Addition to β,β-Disubstituted α,β-Unsaturated Ketones: Catalytic Asymmetric Construction of Quaternary Carbon Stereocenters

(2009) Ryo Shintani et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Enantioselective Synthesis of All-Carbon Quaternary Stereogenic Centers by Catalytic Asymmetric Conjugate Additions of Alkyl and Aryl Aluminum Reagents to Five-, Six-, and Seven-Membered-Ring β-Substituted Cyclic Enones

(2008) Tricia L. May et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Formal Cycloaddition of Disubstituted Ketenes with 2-Oxoaldehydes Catalyzed by Chiral N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

(2008) Lin He et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Catalytic Carbon−Carbon σ Bond Activation: An Intramolecular Carbo-Acylation Reaction with Acylquinolines

(2008) Ashley M. Dreis et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Matching the Chirality of Monodentate N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: A Case Study on Well-Defined Palladium Complexes for the Asymmetric α-Arylation of Amides

(2008) Xinjun Luan et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Metal-Catalyzed Enantioselective Allylation in Asymmetric Synthesis

(2007) Zhan Lu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Catalytic Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Elatol

(2007) David E. White et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY