Jerome Lacour et al.
Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 3(1), 15-19 (2004-12-17)
Chemical reactions and processes often involve chiral, yet racemic, cationic reagents, intermediates or products. To afford instead non racemic or enantiopure compounds, an asymmetric ion pairing of the cations with enantiopure anions can be considered--the counter ions behaving as asymmetric