Oxazaborolidine-derived Lewis acid assisted Lewis acid as a moisture-tolerant catalyst for enantioselective Diels-Alder reactions

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1484-1487

  Futatsugi, Kentaro ^a   Yamamoto, Hisashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric catalysis; Cycloaddition; Diels Alder reaction; Lewis acids

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; MOISTURE; OXYGEN; REACTION KINETICS; SUBSTRATES; TIN COMPOUNDS;

ENANTIOSELECTIVE DIELS-ALDER REACTIONS; LEWIS ACIDS;

INORGANIC ACIDS;

BORON DERIVATIVE; LEWIS ACID; OXAZABOROLIDINE DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TIN CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; CATALYSIS; CHIRALITY; CYCLOADDITION; DIELS ALDER REACTION; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; MOISTURE;

ACIDS; BORON COMPOUNDS; CATALYSIS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 16244422698     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200461319     Document Type: Article

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