Novel enantioselective direct aldol-type reaction promoted by a chiral phosphine oxide as an organocatalyst

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 4602-4605

  Kotani, Shunsuke ^a   Shimoda, Yasushi ^a   Sugiura, Masaharu ^a   Nakajima, Makoto ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; BENZALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOHEXANONE DERIVATIVE; ETHER DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHINE OXIDE DERIVATIVE;

ALDOL REACTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 67449088256     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2009.05.065     Document Type: Article

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