New symmetry-breaking deprotonation reactions of cyclic imides using a chiral lithium amide base

Chemical Communications

Volumn , Issue 15, 1998, Pages 1605-1606

  Adams, David J ^a   Simpkins, Nigel S ^a   Smith, Torben J N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001961915     PISSN: 13597345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/a803574a     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. For reviews, see P. O'Brien, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans, 1, 1998, 1439;
2. P. J. Cox and N. S. Simpkins, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 1991, 2, 1;
3. N. S. Simpkins, Advances in Asymmetric Synthesis, ed. G. R. Stephenson, Blackie Academic, 1996;
4. K. Koga, Pure Appl. Chem., 1994, 66, 1487.
5. For leading references in these two areas, see A. J. Blake, S. M. Westaway and N. S. Simpkins, Synlett, 1997, 919 (sulfoxides);
6. R. A. Ewin, D. A. Price, N. S. Simpkins, A. M. MacLeod and A. P. Watt, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1997, 401 (organometallics).
7. We have recently described an enantioselective elimination reaction akin to the process outlined in Scheme 1, see C. D. Jones, N. S. Simpkins and G. M. P. Giblin, Tetrahedron Lett., 1998, 39, 1023.