September 2003
Issue No. 10

IN THIS ISSUE...

Highlights from Chiral Europe, 2003, London, 12-14th May 2003

Crafting Chiral Space for Asymmetric Induction in a Catalytic Synthetic Reaction, Keynote Lecture 1

Recent Advances in Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation, Keynote Lecture 2

Evolutionary and Combinatorial Methods in Asymmetric Catalysis

Design, Performance, Manufacture and Industrial Use of Chiral Ligands

Benefits and Limitations of chiral resolution via preferred crystallisation

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Cyclopropanation via a Simple Barbier Reaction in DMF

A Simple Protocol for Direct Reductive Amination of Ketones and Aldehydes (including -unsaturated carbonyl compounds)

Pyrrolidine-2-carboxylic acid (L-Proline) as an enantioselective catalyst

Superacid Catalysed Hydroxyalkylation of  Aromatics with Ethyl Trifluoropyruvate (A New Route to Mosher's Acid Analogues)

Polymethylhydrosiloxane (PMHS) as an Additive in the Sonogashira Reaction

One-pot synthesis of dihydropyrimidinones catalysed by lithium bromide: an improved procedure for the Biginelli reaction

Direct Synthesis of Propylene Oxide with CO2 as Solvent

Direct Sulphonation of Methane to Methanesulphonic Acid with SO2 Using Ca Salts as Promoters

Palladium-Catalysed Asymmetric Addition of Pronucleophiles to Allenes

Highly Enantioselective Catalytic Conjugate Addition of Cyanide to -unsaturated Imides

Intramolecular [4+2] Cycloadditions of iminoacetonitriles: A New Class of Azadienophiles for Hetero Diels-Alder Reactions

Novel Small Organic Molecules for a Highly Enantioselective Direct Aldol Reaction

Selective C-Arylation of Free (NH)-Hetroarenes via Catalytic C-H bond Functionalisation

The Dienyl Pauson-Khand Reaction

The Pauson-Khand Reaction: the Catalytic Age Is Here

Construction of Quaternary Stereocenters: New Perspectives through Enantioselective Michael Reactions

Diastereoselective Temporary Silicon-Tethered Ring-Closing-Metathesis Reactions with Prochiral Alcohols: A New Approach to Long-Range Asymmetric Induction

A Water-Soluble and "Self-Assembled" Polyoxometalate as a Recyclable Catalyst for Oxidation of Alcohols in Water with Hydrogen Peroxide

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