{"title":"Thiourea and squaramide organocatalysts for the asymmetric total synthesis of natural compounds","authors":"Márcia Rénio , M. Rita Ventura","doi":"10.1039/d5ob00800j","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Thiourea and squaramide organocatalysts have become essential tools in asymmetric synthesis, offering metal-free, highly selective methods for the efficient synthesis of complex natural products with important biological activities. Through directional hydrogen bonding, these catalysts activate electrophilic substrates with remarkable stereocontrol. This short review highlights recent advances demonstrating the power of these catalysts in the enantioselective synthesis of intricate natural scaffolds.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":96,"journal":{"name":"Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry","volume":"23 33","pages":"Pages 7521-7537"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S1477052025006068","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Thiourea and squaramide organocatalysts have become essential tools in asymmetric synthesis, offering metal-free, highly selective methods for the efficient synthesis of complex natural products with important biological activities. Through directional hydrogen bonding, these catalysts activate electrophilic substrates with remarkable stereocontrol. This short review highlights recent advances demonstrating the power of these catalysts in the enantioselective synthesis of intricate natural scaffolds.
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry is an international journal using integrated research in chemistry-organic chemistry. Founded in 2003 by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the journal is published in Semimonthly issues and has been indexed by SCIE, a leading international database. The journal focuses on the key research and cutting-edge progress in the field of chemistry-organic chemistry, publishes and reports the research results in this field in a timely manner, and is committed to becoming a window and platform for rapid academic exchanges among peers in this field. The journal's impact factor in 2023 is 2.9, and its CiteScore is 5.5.