Enantioselective ring-opening reactions of racemic ethynyl epoxides via copper-allenylidene intermediates: Efficient approach to chiral β-amino alcohols

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 74, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 7603-7607

  Hattori, Gaku ^a   Yoshida, Akiko ^a   Miyake, Yoshihiro ^a   Nishibayashi, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLENYLIDENE COMPLEXES; ALLENYLIDENES; AMINO ALCOHOLS; BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; CHIRAL LIGAND; ENANTIOSELECTIVE; ETHYNYL; HIGH YIELD; NATURAL PRODUCTS; OPTICALLY ACTIVE; RING OPENING REACTION; SYNTHETIC APPROACH;

ALCOHOLS; AMINATION; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; COPPER; COPPER COMPOUNDS; LIGANDS;

AMINES;

ALLENE DERIVATIVE; AMINOALCOHOL; COPPER; EPOXIDE; NATURAL PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; RING OPENING;

EID: 70349847238     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo901064n     Document Type: Article

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