Green' Chemistry; Asymmetric Catalysis; Elements in their Unusually Low-Oxidation & Low-Valence States; Underexplored or Unrecognized LEWIS Base & Acid & Ambiphilic Catalysts; Ambiphilic Strong-Bond Activation in Small Molecules

Boron-Based Pro-Nucleophiles in Catalytic Asymmetric C(sp3)—Allyl Cross-Couplings U. Schneider, Y.-Y. Huang, A. Chakrabarti, H. T. Dao, N. Morita, S. Kobayashi Pure Appl. Chem. 2012, 84, 2417 (account) Low-Oxidation State Indium-Catalyzed Carbon—Carbon Bond Formation U. Schneider, S. Kobayashi Acc. Chem. Res. 2012, 45, 1331 (account) A Catalytic Asymmetric Borono Variant of Hosomi-Sakurai Reactions with N,O-Aminals Y.-Y. Huang, A. Chakrabarti, N. Morita, U. Schneider, S. Kobayashi, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 11121 (communication) Indium(I)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylation, Crotylation, and α-Chloroallylation of Hydrazones with Rare Constitutional and High Configurational Selectivities A. Chakrabarti, H. Konishi, M. Yamaguchi, U. Schneider, S. Kobayashi, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 1838. (communication) Catalytic Use of Indium(0) for Carbon—Carbon Bond Transformations in Water: General Catalytic Allylations of Ketones with Allyl Boronates U. Schneider, M. Ueno, S. Kobayashi J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 13824 (communication)