Recent progress in asymmetric catalysis using chiral carbohydrate-based ligands

This review describes the use of the most representative carbohydrate derivative ligands in asymmetric catalysis between 1972 and 2006 (approximately). Particular emphasis is placed on the latest results published in the most active period of this area of research (1998 to January 2007). In the first sections we cover the results obtained using homodonor ligands, such as phosphanes, phosphinites, phosphites and dithioethers. In the next sections, we present the results of using heterodonor ligands, such as P-P', P-S, P-N and N-S ligands. (C) Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2007).