Review of 'Organocatalysts for enantioselective synthesis of fine chemicals: definitions, trends and developments'

This review article titled “Organocatalysts for enantioselective synthesis of fine chemicals: definitions, trends and developments” gave a brief overview about the two main classes of substrate activation by the catalyst and some successful examples of heterogenisation of organocatalysts were also discussed. This is in general a not bad review for those who have just entered the area of organocatalysis. I would agree the publication of the current review unless the following corrections were made:

First, I supposed more detailed about the reaction mechanism should be given for those beginners in this area to understand the process of the reaction and the working mode of the catalysts (such as Figure 6, 12-14, 16 and so on).

Second, ambiguous or incorrect presentations were found now and then. For examples, in Figure 10, the phrase “Bronsted base” should have been “Brønsted base”; in figure 11, the Schereiner thiourea was not a chiral catalyst at all; the absolute configuration of compound 40, 59, 61 were not specified; in figure 12, all reactions were catalyzed by “catalyst” but we don’t know by which catalyst; in Figure 16, the catalyst loading was not given.