Asymmetric synthesis of activated cyclopropanes catalyzed by cinchonidine as a chiral Brønsted base

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 47, Issue 51, 2006, Pages 9061-9065

  Kojima, Satoshi ^a   Suzuki, Maki ^a   Watanabe, Akito ^a   Ohkata, Katsuo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activated cyclopropane; Br nsted base catalyst; Cinchonidine; Enantioselective; Methylidenemalononitrile

Indexed keywords

BASE; CINCHONIDINE; CYCLOPROPANE DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN; KETONE DERIVATIVE; MALONONITRILE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHIRALITY; CYCLOPROPANATION; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; EXPERIMENTATION; HYDROGEN BOND; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33750965601     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2006.10.085     Document Type: Article

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55. 3) δ 8.11 (d, J = 8.4 Hz, 2H), 7.74 (t, J = 7.6 Hz, 1H), 7.61 (t, J = 7.7 Hz, 2H), 7.49-7.43 (m, 3H), 7.41-7.38 (m, 2H), 4.04 (d, J = 7.9 Hz, 1H), 3.91 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 1H).