title: New concepts for organocatalysis.
abstract: Organocatalysis, catalysis with low-molecular weight catalysts in which a metal is not part of the catalytic principle or the reaction substrate, can be as efficient and selective as metal- or biocatalysis. Important discoveries in this area include novel Lewis base-catalyzed enantioselective processes and, more recently, simple Brønsted acid organocatalysts that rival the efficiency of traditional metal-based asymmetric Lewis acid-catalysts. Contributions to organocatalysis from our laboratories include several new and broadly useful concepts such as enamine catalysis and asymmetric counteranion-directed catalysis. Our laboratory has discovered the proline-catalyzed direct asymmetric intermolecular aldol reaction and introduced several other organocatalytic reactions.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. subhas@mpi-muelheim.mpg.de
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: List
mesh_terms: D000586:Amination; D000588:Amines / Q000737:chemistry*; D002384:Catalysis; D002625:Chemistry, Organic / Q000379:methods*; D006859:Hydrogen / Q000737:chemistry; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011392:Proline / Q000737:chemistry*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D000588:Amines; D006859:Hydrogen; D011392:Proline