Amphoteric amino aldehydes reroute the Aza-Michael reaction

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 45, 2009, Pages 16404-16406

  Hili, Ryan ^a   Yudin, Andrei K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ALDEHYDES; AZA-MICHAEL REACTION; AZIRIDINES; CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; DIMER DISSOCIATION; DOMINO REACTIONS; HIGH YIELD; ORTHOGONALITY; REACTION CONDITIONS; UNSATURATED ALDEHYDES;

ADDITION REACTIONS; AMINATION; AMINES; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; OLIGOMERS; REACTION KINETICS;

ALDEHYDES;

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE;

ALDOL REACTION; ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MICHAEL ADDITION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SYNTHESIS;

ALDEHYDES; AZA COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYCLIZATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 70450175254     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja9072194     Document Type: Article

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