The aim of this book is to cover the very recent developments in asymmetric
organocatalysis, focussing on those published since the beginning of 2008. The
last decade has witnessed an explosive growth in the field of asymmetric
organocatalysis with an impressive amount of new catalysts, novel methodologies,
and applications in numerous reaction types, such as nucleophilic substitutions,
addition reactions, as well as cycloadditions, oxidations, reductions, kinetic
resolutions, and miscellaneous reactions.
This very diverse and intensely developing field is too wide to cover in a
single review. The timeliness of the book together with the expected impact is
excellent, since nowadays asymmetric organocatalysis is arguably the