Synthesis 2016; 48(07): 960-973
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1561328
short review
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Merging Transition-Metal Activation and Aminocatalysis

Marta Meazza
Faculty of Natural & Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK   Email: rrt1f11@soton.ac.uk
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Ramon Rios*
Faculty of Natural & Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK   Email: rrt1f11@soton.ac.uk
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Publication History

Received: 12 November 2015

Accepted after revision: 18 December 2015

Publication Date:
26 January 2016 (online)


This review is dedicated to Professor Choong Eui Song on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

Abstract

In this review the principal enantioselective methodologies merging transition-metal catalysis and aminocatalysis are disclosed.

1 Introduction

2 Transition-Metal and Enamine Catalysis

3 Transition-Metal and Iminium Catalysis

4 Transition-Metal Catalysis and Organocascade (Iminium/Enamine) Activation

5 Conclusions and Perspectives