Asymmetric enamine catalysis.

4.2.8. Reductive Coupling 3109 5. Reaction of Aromatic Compounds 3110 5.1. Electrophilic Substitutions 3110 5.2. Radical Substitution 3111 5.3. Oxidative Coupling 3111 5.4. Photochemical Reactions 3111 6. Reaction of Carbonyl Compounds 3111 6.1. Nucleophilic Additions 3111 6.1.1. Allylation 3111 6.1.2. Propargylation 3120 6.1.3. Benzylation 3121 6.1.4. Arylation/Vinylation 3121 6.1.5. Alkynylation 3121 6.1.6. Alkylation 3121 6.1.7. Reformatsky-Type Reaction 3122 6.1.8. Direct Aldol Reaction 3122 6.1.9. Mukaiyama Aldol Reaction 3124 6.1.10. Hydrogen Cyanide Addition 3125 6.2. Pinacol Coupling 3126 6.3. Wittig Reactions 3126 7. Reaction of R,â-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds 3127

Organic Reactions in Aqueous Media with a Focus on Carbon−Carbon Bond Formations: A Decade Update

Organic chemists have always been fascinated by the cyclopropane subunit.1 The smallest cycloalkane is found as a basic structural element in a wide range of naturally occurring compounds.2 Moreover, many cyclopropane-containing unnatural products have been prepared to test the bonding features of this class of highly strained cycloalkanes3 and to study enzyme mechanism or inhibition.4 Cyclopropanes have also been used as versatile synthetic intermediates in the synthesis of more functionalized cycloalkanes5,6 and acyclic compounds.7 In recent years, most of the synthetic efforts have focused on the enantioselective synthesis of cyclopropanes.8 This has remained a challenge ever since it was found that the members of the pyrethroid class of compounds were effective insecticides.9 New and more efficient methods for the preparation of these entities in enantiomerically pure form are still evolving, and this review will focus mainly on the new methods that have appeared in the literature since 1989. It will elaborate on only three types of stereoselective cyclopropanation reactions from olefins: the halomethylmetal-mediated cyclopropanation reactions (eq 1), the transition metal-catalyzed decomposition of diazo compounds (eq 2), and the nucleophilic addition-ring closure sequence (eqs 3 and 4). These three processes will be examined in the context of diastereoand enantiocontrol. In the last section of the review, other methods commonly used to make chiral, nonracemic cyclopropanes will be briefly outlined.

Stereoselective Cyclopropanation Reactions

1,2-Amino Alcohols and Their Heterocyclic Derivatives as Chiral Auxiliaries in Asymmetric Synthesis

Introduction Cationic domino reactions Anionic domino reactions Radical domino reactions Pericyclic domino reactions Photochemically induced domino processes Transition metal catalysis Domino reactions initiated by oxidation or reduction Enzymes in domino reactions Multicomponent reactions Special techniques in domino reactions

Domino Reactions in Organic Synthesis

The reactivity of the N-Boc protecting group: an underrated feature

The Use of N‐Boc‐1,3‐Oxazolidines as Chiral Auxiliaries in Asymmetric Synthesis

Enantiopure 2-cyano azetidines were prepared in high yields from β-amino alcohols This synthesis was shown to be general and is based on two important steps: (i) chlorination of a N-cyanomethylated β-amino alcohol and (ii) a 4-exo-trig ring closure through the alkylation of a lithiated α-amino nitrile The former step is stereoselective when ephedrine-derived β-amino alcohols are used In the case of a phenylglycinol-derived β-amino alcohol, this step also involves a rearrangement

Claude Agami

Papers

The reactivity of the N-Boc protecting group: an underrated feature

The Use of N‐Boc‐1,3‐Oxazolidines as Chiral Auxiliaries in Asymmetric Synthesis

A straightforward synthesis of enantiopure 2-cyano azetidines from β-amino alcohols

Asymmetric synthesis of pipecolic acid derivatives

N-Boc 2-Acyloxazolidines: Useful precursors to enantiopure 1,2-diols via highly diastereoselective nucleophilic additions