Abstract
Over the past decade, chiral Lewis base-catalysed cycloadditions has brought about numerous methods for the enantioselective synthesis of carbocycles and heterocycles. This short review covers some of the advances made in the area of absolute stereocontrol in this higher order cycloaddition.
Keywords: Cycloaddition, organocatalysis, asymmetric, Lewis base, phosphine catalysts, amine catalysts, organic synthesis, asymmetric cycloaddition, Diels-Alder transformations, carbocycles, heterocycles, cyclopropanes, alkaloids, bioactive molecules, stereochemistry