"Due to the increasing number of chiral drugs in the pipeline, asymmetric synthesis and efficient chiral separation technologies are steadily gaining in importance. Recently a third class of catalysts, besides the established enzymes and metal complexes, has been added to the tool kit of catalytic asymmetric synthesis: organocatalysts, small organic molecules in which a metal is not part of the active principle."
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Manfred T. Reetz, et al. "Preface" in Organocatalysis (2008) edited by M.T. Reetz, B. List, S. Jaroch, H. Weinmann.
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