Meet the editor

Takashiro Akitsu, Ph.D., is now a professor in the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science Division II, Tokyo University of Science, Japan. Studying crystal and electronic structures of chiral copper complexes, he graduated from Osaka University and obtained his Ph.D. in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry in 2000. Dr. Akitsu studied at the Institute for Protein Research (metalloproteins), Keio University (photo and magnetic func-

tional organic/inorganic hybrid compounds), and Stanford University (physical and bioinorganic chemistry) before moving to Tokyo University of Science. He has published 220 articles and book chapters. He has also served as an editorial board member and peer reviewer for many journals and was involved in the organizing committees for several international conferences.

Contents

Introductory Chapter: Chirality

A New Arrival in the Green Organic Synthesis

Gold Catalyzed Asymmetric Transformations

*Kyeong Ho Kim and Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein*

Role of Click Chemistry in Organic Synthesis *by Ayushi Sethiya, Nusrat Sahiba and Shikha Agarwal*

*by Takashiro Akitsu*

*by Susana Porcel García*

Chiral Alkaloid Analysis

and Biological Transformations *by Ishfaq Ahmad Rather and Rashid Ali*

Chirality in Anticancer Agents

Mirror Symmetry of Life *by Beata Zagórska-Marek*

*by Jindra Valentová and Lucia Lintnerová*

*by Rashid Ali*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 7**

**Chapter 3 21**

**Chapter 4 39**

**Chapter 5 65**

**Chapter 6 91**

**Chapter 7 109**

**Chapter 8 139**

**Chapter 9 163**

Low Melting Mixture of L-(+)-Tartaric Acid and *N,N*′-Dimethyl Urea:

*by Ngoc Van Thi Nguyen, Kim Ngan Huynh Nguyen, Kien Trung Nguyen,* 

Anion-π Catalysis: A Novel Supramolecular Approach for Chemical

Chiroptical Polymer Functionalized by Chiral Nanofibrillar Network

*by Hirotaka Ihara, Makoto Takafuji and Yutaka Kuwahara*
