Highly enantioselective organocatalytic conjugate addition of nitromethane to α,β-unsaturated aldehydes: Three-step synthesis of optically active baclofen

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 349, Issue 17-18, 2007, Pages 2660-2664

  Zu, Liansuo ^a   Xie, Hexin ^a   Li, Hao ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric catalysis; Asymmetric synthesis; C C bond formation; Michael addition; Organic catalysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349109188     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: 15213897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.200700353     Document Type: Article

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