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Rhodium(I)‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Cascade Reactions

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Dinuclear Zn-Catalytic System as Brønsted Base and Lewis Acid for Enantioselectivity in Same Chiral Environment

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Asymmetric Magnesium‐Catalyzed Hydroboration by Metal‐Ligand Cooperative Catalysis

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Asymmetric organocatalytic Morita−Baylis−Hillman reaction and asymmetric organocatalytic transformations of Morita−Baylis−Hillman adducts. An update

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N-Methylation and Trideuteromethylation of Amines via Magnesium-Catalyzed Reduction of Cyclic and Linear Carbamates

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Chemoselective Luche-Type Reduction of α,β-Unsaturated Ketones by Magnesium Catalysis

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Green Synthesis of Biorelevant Scaffolds through Organocatalytic/ Enzymatic Dynamic Kinetic Resolution

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Recent Developments in Enantioselective Scandium-Catalyzed Transformations

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Mg(II)‐Catalyzed [4+2] Annulation for the Synthesis of 2‐Arylquinoline Motifs: Applications and DFT Studies

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s-Block Metal Catalysts for the Hydroboration of Unsaturated Bonds

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Magnesium‐Catalyzed Hydroboration of Terminal and Internal Alkynes

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Green Synthesis of Electrophilic Alkenes Using a Magnesium Catalyst under Aqueous Conditions and Mechanistic Insights by Density Functional Theory

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Synthesis of Chiral Heterocycles from Asymmetric Cascade Palladium Catalysis

Hélène Pellissier

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Magnesium‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Thia‐Michael Addition to α,β‐Unsaturated Ketones

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Chiral Magnesium(II)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydroalkylation of Imine-Containing Vinylazaarenes through Conjugate Addition

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Recent Developments in Enantioselective Domino Reactions. Part A: Noble Metal Catalysts

Hélène Pellissier

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Recent Developments in Enantioselective Domino Reactions. Part B: First Row Metal Catalysts

Hélène Pellissier

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Magnesium-Catalyzed Stereoselective Hydrostannylation of Internal and Terminal Alkynes

Marc Magre, Marcin Szewczyk and Magnus Rueping

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Recent Developments in Enantioselective Metal‐Catalyzed Domino Reactions

Hélène Pellissier

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Asymmetric Epoxidation of Enones Promoted by Dinuclear Magnesium Catalyst

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