Efficient and reliable amplification of chirality has borne its greatest fruit with transition metal-catalyzed reactions since enantiocontrol may often be imposed by replacing an achiral or chiral racemic ligand with one that is chiral and scalemic While the most thoroughly developed enantioselective transition metal-catalyzed reactions are those involving transfer of oxygen (epoxidation and dihydroxylation)1,2 and molecular hydrogen,3 the focus of this review is on the area of enantioselective transition metal-catalyzed allylic alkylations which may involve C-C as well as C-X (X ) H or heteroatom) bond formation4-9 The synthetic utility of transitionmetal-catalyzed allylic alkylations has been soundly demonstrated since its introduction nearly three decades ago10-21 In contrast to processes where the allyl moiety acts as the nucleophilic partner, we will limit our discussion to processes which result in nucleophilic displacements on allylic substrates (eq 1) Such reactions have been recorded with a broad

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Asymmetric Transition Metal-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylations.

Asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of C=O and C=N bonds

The stereocontrolled construction of C−C bonds remains one of the foremost challenges in organic synthesis. At the heart of any chemical synthesis of a natural product or designed small molecule is the need to orchestrate a series of chemical reactions to prepare and functionalize a carbon framework. The advent of transition-metal catalysis has provided chemists with a broad range of new tools to forge C−C bonds and has resulted in a paradigm shift in synthetic strategy planning. The impact of these methods was recognized with the awarding of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, and Akira Suzuki for their seminal contributions to the development of Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling.

Enantioselective and Enantiospecific Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organometallic Reagents To Construct C–C Bonds

Novel tricarbazole compounds are provided. By appropriately selecting the nature of the tricarbazole substituents, compounds with appropriate HOMO and LUMO energies can be obtained for use as materials in a secondary hole transport layer.

Organic Electroluminescent Materials and Devices

Metal Vinylidenes in Catalysis

Half-sandwich chiral ruthenium complexes

Asymmetric nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of allylic substrates with grignard reagents

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Franco Morandini

Papers

Half-sandwich chiral ruthenium complexes

Asymmetric nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of allylic substrates with grignard reagents

Stereochemical studies on the interconversion of alkylidenecarbene, carbene, and alkyl ligands in chiral cyclopentadienyl ruthenium complexes

Asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones catalyzed by phosphine-rhodium(I) and -iridium(I) complexes

Cationic complexes of rhodium(I) as catalysts in the homogeneous O2-oxidation of terminal alkenes to methyl ketones