Preparation of axially chiral N,N′-diarylimidazolium and N-arylthiazolium salts and evaluation of their catalytic potential in the benzoin and in the intramolecular stetter reactions

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2025-2035

  Pesch, Jens ^a   Harms, Klaus ^b   Bach, Thorsten ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetric catalysis; Atropisomerism; Carbenes; Heterocycles; Umpolung

Indexed keywords

2 TERT BUTYLANILINE; 3 (2 TERT BUTYLPHENYL) 1,3 DIHYDRO 5 (2 HYDROXYETHYL) 4 METHYL 2H THIAZOLE 2 THIONE; 3 (2 TERT BUTYLPHENYL) 4 METHYLTHIAZOLIUM PERCHLORATE; ALPHA BROMOMENTHONE; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; BENZOIN; ESTER DERIVATIVE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; KETONE DERIVATIVE; PERCHLORIC ACID; SODIUM DERIVATIVE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHIRALITY; EVALUATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RACEMIC MIXTURE; STETTER REACTION;

EID: 4544371662     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200300762     Document Type: Article

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