Multicenter Strategy for the Development of Catalytic Enantioselective Nucleophilic Alkylation of Ketones: Me2Zn Addition to α-Ketoesters

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 42, Issue 44, 2003, Pages 5489-5492

  Funabashi, Ken ^a   Jachmann, Markus ^a   Kanai, Motomu ^a   Shibasaki, Masakatsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alkylation; Asymmetric catalysis; Homogeneous catalysis; Ketoesters; Nonlinear effects

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; CATALYST ACTIVITY; ESTERS;

ENANTIOSELECTIVITY;

KETONES;

ESTER DERIVATIVE; KETONE; ZINC DERIVATIVE;

ADDITION REACTION; ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY;

EID: 0344845086     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200351650     Document Type: Article

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