Asymmetric Organocatalytic Rearrangement Reactions

Abstract

Rearrangement reactions often lead to the regio- and stereoselective formation of carbon-carbon or carbon-heteroatom bonds, and allow the construction of otherwise hard-to-access molecular frameworks. Research disclosed in the present decade, especially in the last two years, has shown that organocatalytic modes of activation can be successfully applied to a variety of rearrangements. In this Minireview we discuss the advances achieved so far in asymmetric organocatalytic rearrangement reactions.