Supplementary Material (ESI) for Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry This journal is (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry 2011 1 Asymmetric syn-selective direct aldol reaction of protected hydroxyacetone catalyzed by primary amino acid derived bifunctional organocatalysts in the presence of water Akshay Kumar, Sarbjit Singh, Vikas Kumar and Swapandeep Singh Chimni* Department of Chemistry, U.G.C. Centre of Advance Studies in Chemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, 143005, India sschimni@yahoo.com ; sschimni.chem@gndu.ac.in