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Privileged Brønsted acid organocatalysis

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Chiral BINOL-phosphates have qualified as privileged Brønsted acid organocatalysts, providing solutions to many challenging enantioselective transformations for a wide range of substrates under mild reaction conditions. Here we revisit the story of their origins.

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Fig. 1: Principles of asymmetric Brønsted acid catalysis.

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Tsogoeva, S.B. Privileged Brønsted acid organocatalysis. Nat Catal 7, 7–9 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-023-01099-9

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