Organocatalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Indole-Based Chiral Heterocycles: Strategies, Reactions, and Outreach

• Published in: Accounts of chemical research Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 425 - 446
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yu-Chen, Jiang, Fei, Shi, Feng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 18.02.2020

Conspectus Indole-based chiral heterocycles constitute a class of important heterocyclic compounds that are found in numerous pharmaceuticals, functional materials, and chiral catalysts or ligands. Catalytic asymmetric synthesis, for which the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded, has been demo...