Construction of Chiral Cyclic Compounds Enabled by Enantioselective Photocatalysis

Abstract

Chiral cyclic molecules are some of the most important compounds in nature, and are widely used in the fields of drugs, materials, synthesis, etc. Enantioselective photocatalysis has become a powerful tool for organic synthesis of chiral cyclic molecules. Herein, this review summarized the research progress in the synthesis of chiral cyclic compounds by photocatalytic cycloaddition reaction in the past 5 years, and expounded the reaction conditions, characters, and corresponding proposed mechanism, hoping to guide and promote the development of this field.

Keywords

• photocatalysis
• chiral cyclic compounds
• asymmetric catalysis
• enantioselectivity