An amine sulfonamide organocatalyst for promoting direct, highly enantioselective α-aminoxylation reactions of aldehydes and ketones

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 39, 2004, Pages 7235-7238

  Wang, Wei ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Li, Hao ^a   Liao, Lixin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Aldehydes; Asymmetric catalysis; Ketones; Pyrrolidine sulfonamide; Aminoxylation

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; AMINE; KETONE DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC SOLVENT; PROLINE; SULFONAMIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; OXIDATION;

EID: 4444260494     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2004.08.029     Document Type: Article

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45. 20 mol % I: 15 min, 84% yield, >99% ee; 10 mol % I: 30 min, 80% yield, >99% ee; 5 mol % I: 50 min, 72% yield, >99% ee; 2 mol % I: 2.5 h, 70% yield, >99% ee; 1 mol % I: 6.5 h, 64% yield, >99% ee