Chiral binaphthyl-derived amine-thiourea organocatalyst-promoted asymmetric Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction

Organic Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 4293-4296

  Wang, Jian ^a   Li, Hao ^a   Yu, Xinhong ^b   Zu, Liansuo ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; AMINE; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; THIOUREA;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM;

ALDEHYDES; AMINES; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NAPHTHALENES; STEREOISOMERISM; THIOUREA;

EID: 25444432564     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol051822+     Document Type: Article

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47. 3 (v/v, 1/9) 80% yield, 63% ee; 1,4-dioxane 61% yield, 77% ee; and DMF 38% yield, 61% ee.