Chiral brønsted acid directed iron-catalyzed enantioselective friedelcrafts alkylation of indoles with β-aryl α'-hydroxy enones

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1638-1645

  Yang, Lei ^a   Zhu, Qiming ^a   Guo, Shengmei ^a   Qian, Bo ^a   Xia, Chungu ^a   Huang, Hanmin ^a  

^a LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Alkylation; Asymmetric catalysis; Br nsted acids; Iron; Proton acceleration

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; BASIC SITES; CATALYTIC ACTIVITY; CATALYTIC SPECIES; CATALYTIC SYSTEM; COOPERATIVE CATALYTIC SYSTEMS; ENANTIOSELECTIVE; ENATIOSELECTIVITIES; FRIEDEL-CRAFTS ALKYLATION; HIGH ACTIVITY; HYDROGEN BONDING INTERACTIONS; HYDROXY ENONES; IRON SALTS; LEWIS-ACID ACTIVATION; PARA POSITION; PHENYL RINGS; PHOSPHATE SALTS; PROTON ACCELERATION; REACTION MECHANISM;

ALKYLATION; CATALYSIS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN BONDS; PROTONS;

ACIDS;

EID: 75749128225     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200902705     Document Type: Article

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