Stereochemistry and Recent Applications of Axially Chiral Organic Molecules

This minireview covers the literature of the last decade related to the stereochemistry of axially chiral molecules. The first section reviews the use of dynamic NMR and dynamic HPLC for the ranking of the steric size of common organic moieties. The second and third sections describe the recent advances in the preparation of new atropisomeric scaffolds, and in the asymmetric synthesis of stereogenic axes by means of atroposelective organocatalysis.