Mechanism and scope of salen bifunctional catalysts in asymmetric aldehyde and α-ketoester alkylation

Tetrahedron

Volumn 61, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 6249-6265

  Fennie, Michael W ^a   DiMauro, Erin F ^a   O'Brien, Erin M ^a   Annamalai, Venkatachalam ^a   Kozlowski, Marisa C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ketoester; Asymmetric alkylation; Bifunctional catalysis

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; DIETHYLZINC; ESTER DERIVATIVE; LEWIS ACID; LEWIS BASE; LIGAND; OPIATE ANTAGONIST;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACEMIZATION;

EID: 20444435525     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2005.03.117     Document Type: Article

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