Recent Advances in Organocatalysis

Organocatalysis has recently attracted enormous attention as green and sustainable catalysis. It was realized as a fundamental field providing wide families of catalysts for important organic transformations. It will certainly develop in the future. Given the diversity of accessible transformations, metal-catalyzed reactions have become major tools in organic synthesis that will undoubtedly continue to have an important impact in the future. Alternatively, over the last years, a metal-free approach such as organocatalysis has reached a level of faithfulness, allowing researchers to discover new catalytic systems based on engagement of new or earlyprepared organic molecules as organocatalysts. Organocatalysis meets green chemistry principles, especially the reduction of toxicity and chemical accidents, the biodegradability, and the use of benign and friendlier reaction media and conditions. Preface Contents Chapter 1 Hydrogen-Bonding Activation in Chiral Organocatalysts by Hideto Miyabe Chapter 2 Isothiouronium Organocatalysts Through Hydrogen Bonding by Quynh Pham Bao Nguyen and Taek Hyeon Kim Chapter 3 Organocatalyzed Asymmetric Reaction Using α- Isothiocyanato Compounds by Wei-Cheng Yuan, Wen-Yong Han, Yong-Zheng Chen, Bao-Dong Cui and Xiao-Ying Xu Chapter 4 Recent Advances in Guanidine-Based Organocatalysts in Stereoselective Organic Transformation Reactions by Shrawan Kumar Mangawa and Satish Kumar Awasthi Chapter 5 Organocatalytic Transformation of Carbon Dioxide by Ruimao Hua and Sushmita Roy Chapter 6 Photo-Organocatalysis, Photo-Redox, and Electro- Organocatalysis Processes by Karolina Zalewska, Miguel M. Santos, Hugo Cruz and Luis C. Branco Chapter 7 Recent Advances in Sustainable Organocatalysis by Luis C. Branco, Ana M. Faisca Phillips, Maria M. Marques, Sandra Gago and Paula S. Branco