Gold Catalysis Gold-catalyzed enantioselective cycloadditions, cyclizations, cycloisomerizations, and tandem
annulations are of great interest for rapid construction of optically active hetero- and carbocyclic molecules. In the Review on
page 467 ff., J. Zhang et al. summarize the methods to construct chiral cyclic compounds by gold-catalyzed enantioselective
annulations reported during the last decade. There are four main general
annulation types catalyzed by chiral gold complexes or chiral gold salts: cycloadditions, cyclizations of C−C multiple bonds with tethered nucleophiles, cycloisomerization or cyclization of enynes, and tandem
annulations, which are all discussed alongside some other strategies, reaction mechanisms, key intermediates, and several novel ligands and chiral gold salts.