Asymmetric Catalytic Approaches Employing α,β-Unsaturated Imines

Nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds have consistently been a noticeable center of attention due to their significant utilization in the domain of synthetic organic chemistry, agrochemicals, and pharmaceuticals. α,β-Unsaturated imines or conjugated imines provide a lot of significant cyclic as well as acyclic products through reacting with a versatile family of compounds. This review summarizes the recent advances in enantioselective reactions of α,β-unsaturated imines by using synthetic methodologies for synthesizing various nitrogen-containing heterocycles that contain four to six-membered rings. The synthesis of rarely found seven-, eight- and nine-membered nitrogen-containing heterocycles have also been reported.