A general asymmetric aldol reaction of silyl ketene acetals derived from simple esters to aryl α-keto esters

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 35, 2009, Pages 6109-6111

  Le Engers, Julie ^a,b   Pagenkopf, Brian L ^a,c  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aldol reactions; Asymmetric catalysis; Keto esters; Synthetic methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549172794     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: 10990690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200901086     Document Type: Article

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