Simple Cyclohexanediamine-Derived Primary Amine Thiourea Catalyzed Highly Enantioselective Conjugate Addition of Nitroalkanes to Enones

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2864-2867

  Mei, Kul ^a   Jin, Mel ^a   Zhang, Shilei ^a   Li, Ping ^a   Liu, Wenjing ^a   Chen, Xiaobei ^a   Xue, Fei ^a   Duan, Wenhu ^a,b   Wang, Wei ^a,c  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIAMINOCYCLOHEXANE; 1,2-CYCLOHEXANEDIAMINE; ALKANE; AMINE; CYCLOHEXYLAMINE DERIVATIVE; KETONE; NITRO DERIVATIVE; THIOUREA;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

ALKANES; AMINES; CATALYSIS; CYCLOHEXYLAMINES; KETONES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITRO COMPOUNDS; STEREOISOMERISM; THIOUREA;

EID: 67649491244     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol9010322     Document Type: Article

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