Highly enantioselective Michael addition of aromatic ketones to nitroolefins promoted by chiral bifunctional primary amine-thiourea catalysts based on saccharides

Organic Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 923-925

  Liu, Kun ^a   Cui, Han Feng ^a   Nie, Jing ^a   Dong, Ke Yan ^a   Li, Xiao Juan ^a   Ma, Jun An ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETOPHENONE; ACETOPHENONE DERIVATIVE; ALKENE; AMINE; CARBOHYDRATE; KETONE; NITROGEN; THIOUREA;

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

ACETOPHENONES; ALKENES; AMINES; CARBOHYDRATES; CATALYSIS; KETONES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITROGEN; STEREOISOMERISM; THIOUREA;

EID: 33947169944     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0701666     Document Type: Article

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