Iminium-allenamine cascade catalysis: One-pot access to chiral 4Hchromenes by a highly enantioselective michael-michael sequence

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1481-1484

  Zhang, Xinshuai ^a   Zhang, Shilei ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkynal; Cascade reactions; Enantioselectivity; Michael addition; Organocatalysis

Indexed keywords

CASCADE REACTIONS; CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; CHROMENES; ENANTIOSELECTIVE; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY MICHAEL ADDITION; FUNCTIONALIZED; HIGH YIELD; IMINIUM; MICHAEL-MICHAEL REACTIONS; ONE POT; ORGANOCATALYSIS; TBDMS ETHERS; TERT-BUTYLDIMETHYLSILYL;

ADDITION REACTIONS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; ETHERS; RATE CONSTANTS; REACTION KINETICS;

CATALYSIS;

EID: 76649129328     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200906050     Document Type: Article

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