Affiliation:
1. School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India
2. School of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Abstract
Abstract:
Asymmetric reactions have made a significant advancement over the past few decades
and involved the production of enantiomerically pure molecules using enantioselective
organocatalysis, chiral auxiliaries/substrates, and reagents via controlling the absolute stereochemistry.
The laboratory synthesis using an enantiomerically impure starting material gives a
combination of enantiomers that are difficult to separate for chemists in medicine, chromatography,
pharmacology, asymmetric synthesis, and studies on structure-function relationships of
proteins, life sciences and mechanistic studies. This challenging step of separation can be
avoided by using asymmetric synthesis. Using pharmacologically relevant scaffolds/
pharmacophores, the drug design can also be achieved using asymmetric synthesis to
synthesize receptor-specific pharmacologically active chiral molecules. This approach can be
used to synthesize asymmetric molecules from a wide variety of reactants using specific asymmetric conditions,
which is also beneficial for the environment due to less usage and discharge of chemicals into the environment.
Therefore, in this review, we have focused on the inclusive collation of diverse mechanisms in this area to encourage
auxiliary studies of asymmetric reactions to develop selective, efficient, environment-friendly, and highyielding
advanced processes in asymmetric reactions.
Publisher
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.