Highlights in Organic Chemistry [ Short Peptides and Peptide-Like Enzyme Mimics - Efficient Organic Catalysts in Asymmetric Synthesis ]

The development of peptide-based enzyme mimics as organic catalysts for enantioselective synthesis is of rapidly growing interest today. In the following a brief overview about advantages of oligopeptide catalysts and recent achievements in peptide-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis, published in 2004, is given.