title: When chiral product and catalyst are the same: discovery of asymmetric organoautocatalysis.
abstract: The process of asymmetric organoautocatalysis appears to be a natural extension to asymmetric organocatalysis, and holds implications for models on the origin of biological homochirality. The discovery of asymmetric organoautocatalysis (i.e. the process in which the chiral product of a purely organic reaction acts as an organocatalyst for its own formation under conservation of its absolute configuration) and more recent reports on related systems are discussed in this review.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Chair of Organic Chemistry I, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Henkestrasse 42, 91054 Erlangen, Germany. tsogoeva@chemie.uni-erlangen.de
authors.forename: Svetlana B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Tsogoeva
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000737:chemistry*; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D009930:Organic Chemicals