Small-molecule catalysts are vital for countless chemical reactions. The development of these catalysts, which include transition-metal complexes and small organic molecules, is being stimulated ...
either large or small, natural or synthetic, with high enantiomeric purity. It also examined catalysts for the synthesis of stereo-regular polymers in which all of the chains are the same length.
but as a growing number of small-molecule catalysts continue to rival the high enantioselectivities of enzymatic systems 8, the poor chemoselectivity observed in non-natural catalysis may also one ...