Alkene metathesis catalyzed by enantiopure metal alkylidene complexes enables exceptionally versatile strategies to products with configurationally-defined stereocenters. Desymmetrization processes thereby provide reliable stereoselective routes aliphatic structures, while the differentiation of aromatic stereogenic units remained an outstanding challenge. Herein, we describe feasibility alkene...

Enzyme-catalyzed organic syntheses have enormous potential in the development of environmentally benign processes. In the last two decades, increased efforts have been devoted to making this a reality. However, the utility of the enzymes is generally limited. For example, although the lipases are extensively used for the kinetic resolution or the desymmetrization of alcohols and carboxylic acid...

Herein, we report the first palladium/MPAA catalyzed enantioselective C-H activation/[4+1] annulation of diarylmethyltriflamide and olefins to construct chiral cis-1,3-disubstituted isoindoline derivatives. The use readily accessible mono N-protected amino acid...