3,3′-bimorpholine derivatives as a new class of organocatalysts for asymmetric Michael addition

Organic Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2559-2562

  Mossé, Sarah ^a   Laars, Marju ^b   Kriis, Kadri ^b   Kanger, Tõnis ^b   Alexakis, Alexandre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; ALKENE; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE; NITRO DERIVATIVE; VINYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

ALDEHYDES; ALKENES; CATALYSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MORPHOLINES; NITRO COMPOUNDS; STEREOISOMERISM; VINYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33745542958     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0607490     Document Type: Article

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