Chiral bis(oxazoline) copper(II) complexes: Versatile catalysts for enantioselective cycloaddition, aldol, Michael, and carbonyl ene reactions

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 325-335

  Johnson, Jeffrey S ^a   Evans, David A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; BIS(OXAZOLINE) COPPER COMPLEX; COPPER; COPPER COMPLEX; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; OXAZOLE DERIVATIVE; OXAZOLINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHELATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYCLIZATION; ENANTIOMER; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; CATALYSIS; COPPER; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; OXAZOLES; STEREOISOMERISM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0033936085     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar960062n     Document Type: Article

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