Recent advances in asymmetric reactions catalyzed by chiral phosphoric acids

Abstract

This review summarizes the very recent advances in asymmetric reactions catalyzed by chiral phosphoric acids (CPAs), a family of versatile catalysts that catalyze a broad range of reactions to afford diverse chiral molecules. In the past years, different kinds of chiral phosphoric acids have been designed and developed into a privileged class of catalysts in asymmetric synthesis. A number of remarkable achievements have been made by many groups around the world. Due to length limitation, this review only summarizes those works published from January 2016 to November 2017. Meanwhile, catalytic systems which combine metal catalysts and chiral phosphoric acids will not be discussed in this review.