How to make five contiguous stereocenters in one reaction: Asymmetric organocatalytic synthesis of pentasubstituted cyclohexanes

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 46, Issue 48, 2007, Pages 9202-9205

  Reyes, Efraím ^a   Jiang, Hao ^a   Milelli, Andrea ^a   Elsner, Petteri ^a   Hazell, Rita G ^a   Jørgensen, Karl Anker ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

, Unsaturated aldehydes; Asymmetric synthesis; Domino reaction; Nucleophilic addition; Organocatalysis

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; CATALYSIS; CYCLOHEXANE; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS; DOMINO REACTION; ENANTIOSELECTIVITIES; NUCLEOPHILIC ADDITION; ORGANOCATALYSIS; UNSATURATED ALDEHYDES;

REACTION KINETICS;

ALDEHYDE; ALKANE; CYCLOHEXANE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOHEXANOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

ALDEHYDES; ALKANES; CATALYSIS; CYCLOHEXANES; CYCLOHEXANOLS;

EID: 37349042884     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200704454     Document Type: Article

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