Enantioselective Henry reactions under dual Lewis acid/amine catalysis using chiral amino alcohol ligands

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 44, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 3881-3884

  Palomo, Claudio ^a   Oiarbide, Mikel ^a   Laso, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amines; Amino alcohols; Asymmetric catalysis; Henry reaction; Lewis acids

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; STOICHIOMETRY; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; HENRY REACTIONS; TERTIARY AMINES;

REACTION KINETICS;

ALDEHYDE; AMINE; AMINOALCOHOL; LIGAND; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

ALDEHYDES; AMINES; AMINO ALCOHOLS; CATALYSIS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 21244472399     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200463075     Document Type: Article

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