Since the first example of using a thiourea‐amine organocatalyst was reported in 2003, research on thiourea‐based amines and phosphines in asymmetric catalysis has shown the excellent performance of chiral thiourea‐amine/phosphine organocatalysts in a variety of highly enantioselective reactions. In this Minireview, the iconic catalysts and transformations are highlighted and discussed.
The first regioselective catalytic asymmetric [3 + 2] cycloaddition of benzofuranone-derived olefins with allenoates and substituted allenoates has been developed in the presence of (R)-SITCP.
A new strategy for the phosphine‐mediated dimerization of conjugated ene‐yne ketones to produce functionalized dihydrobenzofurans has been developed, affording diversified 4,5‐dihydrobenzofurans in moderate to excellent yields with high diastereoselectivities under mild conditions. This new synthetic method can tolerate a variety of functional groups and can be performed on a gram scale and in an asymmetric variant using the chiral phosphine Xyl‐BINAP to give the desired products with up to 94% ee.magnified image
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