Asymmetric organocatalysis

This review is intended to update the impressive amount of recent developments of asymmetric organocatalysis in numerous reaction types, such as nucleophilic additions to electron-deficient CC double bonds, nucleophilic additions to CO double bonds, nucleophilic additions to CN double bonds, nucleophilic additions to unsaturated nitrogen, nucleophilic substitutions at aliphatic carbon, cycloaddition reactions, oxidations, reductions, kinetic resolutions and miscellaneous reactions, covering the literature from 2005 to 2007. This review clearly demonstrates the explosive growth and power of this new field of organic chemistry, which has become, in the last few years, the third methodology of asymmetric catalysis besides organometallic and enzymatic catalysis.