Publications in Brief: April 2012

摘要

In 1995, a review in Chinese was published to introduce the importance and the current state of the art of chiral technology. The National Natural Science Foundation of China started to actively support research in this area. From 2000, the Ministry of Science and Technology also started to support such research. Chinese researchers have been making notable achievements in this area by developing alternative effective new chiral ligands for established enantioselective transformations, as well as new catalytic enantioselective reactions with known or new ligands. Chinese chemists were invited to write an account on their own contribution in this area by briefly touching on the background for the contribution from chemists outside China.