Download or read book Design, Synthesis and Applications of Tetradentate Transition Metal Complexes Towards Asymmetric Alkylations written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controlling the absolute stereochemistry of molecules is a major challenge to contemporary chemists. Achieving high enantioselectivity with catalytic amounts of a chirality transfer (or inducing) agent, and the ease of regenerating such catalysts is yet another challenge. Due to the involvement of various transition metal complexes, the relatively young field of enantioselective catalysis has emerged as a powerful tool for organic chemistry.