A highly diastereo- and enantioselective synthesis of multisubstituted cyclopentanes with four chiral carbons by the organocatalytic domino Michael-Henry reaction

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 3489-3492

  Tan, Bin ^a   Chua, Pel Juan ^a   Zeng, Xiaofei ^a   Lu, Min ^a   Zhong, Guofu ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; ETHYLENE OXIDE; TOLUENE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CARBON; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYCLIZATION; CYCLOPENTANES; ETHYLENE OXIDE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM; TOLUENE;

EID: 54049089022     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol801273x     Document Type: Article

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