Conventional organic reactions in flasks still remain many challenges to improve efficiency, stereoselectivity, turn over numbers and so on. The basic catalytic chemistry has still attracted much interest.
We have developed transition metal catalysts bearing chiral pyrroloimidazolone unit and pincer ligands, and the self-assembled nanocatalyts.
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