Noncovalent interactions play an important role in many biological and chemical processes. Among these, hydrogen bonding is very well studied and is already routinely used in organocatalysis. This Short Review focuses on three other types of promising noncovalent interactions. Halogen bonding, chalcogen bonding, and anion-π bonding have been introduced into organocatalysis in the last few years...

The research involving photo-organocatalysis, photoredox, and electro-organocataly‐ sis processes is revised in this chapter. Modern synthetic processes enable the formation of large arrays of organic molecules with precise control over their three-dimensional structure, which is important in a variety of fields ranging from pharmaceutical to materials science. Photochemical reactions may have ...

Functionalized chiral tetrahydroquinolines were synthesized through supramolecular organocatalysis using quinidine-NH-thiourea 3c/L-phenylalanine 4i followed by reductive amination from the simple substrates.

The combination of vanadium- and organocatalysis allows for the direct oxidative coupling of cyclic tertiary amines with non-activated ketones without the need for preformed leaving groups.

Cascade reaction sequences incorporating N-heterocyclic carbene-based organocatalysis have been developed that allow the direct preparation of a range of (+/-)-4-phenoxycarbonylazlactones in good isolated yields (66-84%) from the corresponding N-p-anisoyl amino acids.

An organocatalysis strategy has been developed toward the synthesis of O-spiro-C-aryl glycosides with different configurations in the sugar part. This strategy has been extended to the synthesis of the Papulacandin class of compounds.