Enantioselective Claisen rearrangements with a hydrogen-bond donor catalyst

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 130, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 9228-9229

  Uyeda, Christopher ^a   Jacobsen, Eric N ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLYL ALCOHOL; ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE; BORON DERIVATIVE; COPPER COMPLEX; DICHLOROMETHANE; ESTER; ETHER DERIVATIVE; GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN; LEWIS ACID; MAGNESIUM DERIVATIVE; METAL COMPLEX; OXAZOLINE DERIVATIVE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; THIOUREA DERIVATIVE; UREA DERIVATIVE; VINYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHIRALITY; CLAISEN REARRANGEMENT; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIASTEREOISOMER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; HYDROGEN BOND; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ALLYL COMPOUNDS; CATALYSIS; ESTERS; ETHERS; GUANIDINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; STEREOISOMERISM; VINYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 47849090006     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja803370x     Document Type: Article

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