Enantioselective organocatalytic reductive amination

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 84-86

  Storer, R Ian ^a   Carrera, Diane E ^a   Ni, Yike ^a   MacMillan, David W C ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETONE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

AMINATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; HYDROGEN BOND; REACTION ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

AMINATION; AMINES; CATALYSIS; KETONES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 30744477746     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja057222n     Document Type: Article

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41. The crystallographic data have been deposited at the CCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EZ, UK, and copies can be obtain on request, tree of charge, by quoting the publication citation and the deposition number 287655.