A highly diastereoselective tertiary amine-catalyzed cascade michael-michael-henry reaction between nitromethane, activated alkenes and α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 352, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 97-102

  Zhang, Bo ^a   Cai, Lingchao ^a   Song, Haibin ^a   Wang, Zhihong ^a   He, Zhengjie ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Activated alkenes; Cascade reactions; Multicomponent reactions; Nitromethane; Organocatalysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 75749106224     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: 16154169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.200900657     Document Type: Article

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