Enantioselective organocatalysis

Drug Discovery Today

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 8-27

  Gaunt, Matthew J ^a   Johansson, Carin C C ^a   McNally, Andy ^a   Vo, Ngoc T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOSE; AMINE; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; BASE; BRONSTED ACID; CARBOHYDRATE; ENAMINE; GLUCOSE; HYDROGEN; MANNOSE; PHOSPHORIC ACID; PROLINE;

ADDITION REACTION; ALDOL REACTION; ALKYLATION; AMINATION; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONJUGATION; DIHYDROXYLATION; ENANTIOMER; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; FRIEDEL CRAFTS REACTION; HYDROGEN BOND; MANNICH REACTION; OXIDATION; PHASE TRANSITION; REVIEW; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 33845766272     PISSN: 13596446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2006.11.004     Document Type: Review

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