Asymmetric organocatalytic Henry reaction

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 929-931

  Marcelli, Tommaso ^a   Van Der Haas, Richard N S ^a   Van Maarseveen, Jan H ^a   Hiemstra, Henk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Asymmetric catalysis; Henry reaction; Hydrogen bonds; Organocatalysis

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; HYDROGEN BONDS;

ALKALOIDS; ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; HENRY REACTION; ORGANOCATALYSIS;

REACTION KINETICS;

EID: 32044463560     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200503724     Document Type: Article

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