Affiliation:
1. Xi'an Jiaotong University
2. Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
3. Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics
4. Hong Kong Baptist University
Abstract
Ligands/catalysts have played a crucial role in modern synthetic chemistry, enabling chemists to develop numerous new transformations with excellent control of the chemo-, regio-, stereo-, and/or enantio-selectivity. During recent decades, a large variety of novel ligands/catalysts have been developed, greatly enlarging the toolbox of chemists for chiral organic synthesis, and a large number of challenging transformations have been realized.