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Keywords: Synthetic methods / Asymmetric catalysis / Enantioselectivity / Nitrogen heterocycles / Alkylation 3,3Ј-Triphenylsilyl-substituted (S)-BINOL-based (1,1Ј-bi-2-naphthol) phosphoric acid has proven to be an effective organocatalyst for the asymmetric Friedel-Crafts alkylation of indoles with 3-substituted 3-hydroxyisoindolin-1-ones, affording the corresponding quaternary carbon-containing 3,3-disubstituted isoindolin-1-ones in good yields (up to 99 %)

Chiral phosphoric acids have been proven to be effective organocatalysts for the asymmetric Friedel-Crafts alkylation of indoles with 3-hydroxyisoindolin-1-ones. The corresponding products were obtained in excellent chemical yields (up to 99 %) with moderate to excellent enantioselectivities (up to

Based on different chiral diamine skeletons, a series of bifunctional primary amine-thiophosphoramides were synthesized and screened as the catalysts for the asymmetric Michael addition of acetone to both aromatic and aliphatic nitroolefins. Under the catalysis of a thiophosphoramide derived from 1,2-diphenylethane-1,2-diamine, the corresponding adducts were obtained in high yields (up to >99%) with excellent enantioselectivities (97-99% ee) under mild reaction conditions. Moreover, the catalyst could be recovered via simple phase separation and reused at least five times without any loss of both catalytic activity and stereocontrol.

The current in vitro study indicates that inhibition of proliferation and induction of apoptosis in human cholangiocarcinoma cells by cyclooxygenase-2 specific inhibitor celecoxib may involve in COX-dependent mechanisms and PGE(2) pathway. Celecoxib as a chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic agent might be effective primarily on COX-2-expressing cholangiocarcinoma.