Abstract
Asymmetric catalysis is one of the most important areas of organic synthetic chemistry.
In recent years, with the revival of organic electrochemistry, scientists have begun
to try to combine asymmetric catalysis with electrochemistry to build valuable chiral
molecules. In this review, we focus on examples of organic electrochemistry catalyzed
by transition metals. According to the classification of the interaction of the catalyst
with the substrate, we can divide them into two categories: (1) transition metal catalysts
as chiral Lewis acids; (2) transition metal catalysts that construct chiral molecules
by interacting with substrates through oxidative addition/reductive elimination.
1 Introduction
2 Electrochemical Asymmetric Lewis Acid Catalysis
3 Electrochemical Asymmetric Transition Metal Catalysis
4 Conclusion
Key words
electrosynthesis - electrochemical asymmetric catalysis - transition metal catalysis
- Lewis acid catalysis - oxidative addition - reductive elimination
