title: Applications of chiral phosphine-based organocatalysts in catalytic asymmetric reactions.
abstract: Chiral phosphines are versatile Lewis basic catalysts that are capable of promoting a wide range of asymmetric reactions. In particular, recently designed chiral phosphines based on the concept of bi-/multifunctionality have been demonstrated to be effective catalysts for many types of asymmetric reactions, such as (aza)-MBH reactions, cycloaddition reactions, and nucleophilic addition reactions. This short overview summarizes the recent advances in this field and highlights the most-significant achievements.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 354 Fenglin Road, Shanghai 200032 (China), Fax: (+86) 21-64166128.
authors.forename: Yin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shi
keywords: asymmetric catalysis; cycloaddition; organocatalysis; phosphines; zwitterions