New Trends in Asymmetric Catalysis: Green and Sustainable Catalysts

Dear Colleagues,

After the first successful Special Issue focused on asymmetric catalysis available here, we are now pleased to propose the second edition titled “New Trends in Asymmetric Catalysis: Green and Sustainable Catalysts”.

The constant demand for enantiopure or enantioenriched chiral molecules in diverse industrial areas, such as the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, cosmetic, food chemistry and material science, lies at the base of the extraordinary development of asymmetric synthesis, and in particular of asymmetric catalysis, over the past few decades. However, metal-catalysis, organocatalysis, and biocatalysis, the three main strategies of asymmetric catalysis, are still continuously expanding today and tackling ever new challenges.

Taking into account the evolving requirements about environmental issues, green chemistry has been receiving increasing attention by academic and industrial research. In particular, organic synthesis laboratories and pharmaceutical industries are constantly engaged in developing enantioselective green processes involving reduced amount of hazardous reagents and solvents, fewer purification steps and low energetic consumption. In this context, many efforts are devoted to the employment of organocatalysts or non-toxic metal catalysts, reusable catalysts, multi-step reactions and continuous flow chemical processes. In addition, the need to exploit renewable sources of energy and materials stimulated the rational design of novel ligands and organocatalysts from biomass feedstocks and the increasing use of alternative forms of energy, leading to the development of novel strategies such as asymmetric photocatalysis and electrosynthesis.

This second edition of the Special Issue on New Trends in Asymmetric Catalysis aims to cover recent updates in this timeless topic, with a special focus on green and sustainability issues. Research articles, short communications, brief reports, and review papers on this topic are welcomed.

Dr. Giorgio Della Sala
Dr. Rosaria Schettini
Guest Editors

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