An asymmetric synthesis is the synthesis of a specific enantiomer of a compound, a mixture containing more of one enantioner than another.

Mark A. Rizzacasa has written:

'Stoichiometric asymmetric synthesis' -- subject(s): Asymmetric synthesis, Stoichiometry

Benjamin List has written:

'Science of synthesis' -- subject(s): Catalysis, Asymmetric synthesis, Carbon compounds

'Asymmetric organocatalysis' -- subject(s): Asymmetric synthesis, Organic Chemicals, Organic compounds, Organokatalyse, Asymmetrische Synthese, Catalysis, Synthesis, Chemical synthesis, Amines

When a compound containing an asymmetric carbon atom is synthesised by ordinary laboratory methods from a symmetric compound ,the product is a racemic mixture.if ,however ,such a synthesis is carried under the asymmetric influence of a suitable optically active reagent ,only one of the optically active isomers ( or-)is formed.This process in which an asymmetric compound is synthesised from a symmetric compound to yield the ( ) isomer or (-)isomer directly is termed asymmetric synthesis.

J. Seyden-Penne has written:

'Chiral auxiliaries and ligands in asymmetric synthesis' -- subject(s): Asymmetric synthesis, Chirality