Highly enantioselective Michael addition of cyclic 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds to α,β-unsaturated ketones

Organic Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 413-415

  Xie, Jian Wu ^a,b   Yue, Lei ^c   Chen, Wei ^c   Du, Wei ^c   Zhu, Jin ^a   Deng, Jin Gen ^a   Chen, Ying Chun ^c,d  

^a CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; AMINE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; KETONE; QUININE; SOLVENT;

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

ALDEHYDES; AMINES; ANTICOAGULANTS; CATALYSIS; CYCLIZATION; KETONES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; QUININE; SOLVENTS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 33847051264     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol062718a     Document Type: Article

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