Asymmetric Synthesis: Topics and Advances
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2024) | Viewed by 3781
Special Issue Editor
Interests: catalytic asymmetric synthesis; heterocyclic skeleton construction; carbene chemistry; bioactive molecule design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For decades, the pursuit of efficient and simple methods to achieve the enantioselective synthesis of target products has been a hot field in chemistry. Traditional Lewis acid catalysis and transition-metal-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis (including cross-coupling reactions, carbene chemistry, hydrogenation reduction, etc.) have been considered and achieved remarkable results. Since 2000, research on the catalytic construction of central chiral and axial chiral compounds by small organic molecules has emerged and attracted much attention. In addition, the construction of chiral centers by new free radical reactions, developed in recent years, and catalytic asymmetric dearomatization reactions have also experienced notable progress.
In the context of the vigorous development of the field of asymmetric synthesis, the journal Symmetry has set up a Special Issue called “Asymmetric Catalysis: Topics and Advances”, with the aim of collecting excellent papers in the fields of central chiral and axial chiral compound synthesis catalyzed by small organic molecules, Lewis acid catalysis, transition-metal-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis, asymmetric dearomatization, and asymmetric radical reactions. We warmly welcome chemists to publish their work in Symmetry.
Please kindly note that all submitted papers should be within the scope of the journal where symmetry, or the deliberate lack of symmetry, is present.
Dr. Qiang Sha
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- axial chirality
- Lewis acid catalysis
- transition metal catalysis
- radical chemistry
- asymmetric synthesis
- symmetry
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