Acyclic stereocontrol in the Ireland-Claisen rearrangement of α-branched esters

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 46, Issue 39, 2007, Pages 7466-7469

  Qin, Ying Chuan ^a   Stivala, Craig E ^a   Zakarian, Armen ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiral amines; Diastereoselectivity; Enolization; Ireland Claisen rearrangement; Synthetic methods

Indexed keywords

AMINES; CHIRALITY; STEREOSELECTIVITY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CHIRAL AMINES; DIASTEREOSELECTIVITY; ENOLIZATION; IRELAND-CLAISEN REARRANGEMENT; SYNTHETIC METHODS;

ESTERS;

EID: 35048820525     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200702142     Document Type: Article

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