Dendron-anchored organocatalysts: The asymmetric reduction of imines with trichlorosilane, catalysed by an amino acid-derived formamide appended to a dendron

Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137-141

  Figlus, Marek ^a   Caldwell, Stuart T ^a   Walas, Dawid ^a   Yesilbag, Gulen ^b   Cooke, Graeme ^a   Kočovský, Pavel ^a   Malkov, Andrei V ^a,c   Sanyal, Amitav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC REDUCTION; CATALYST LOADINGS; DENDRONS; FORMAMIDES; KETIMINES; ORGANOCATALYSTS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TIO; TRICHLOROSILANES;

AMIDES; AMINO ACIDS; CATALYSIS; DENDRIMERS; ORGANIC ACIDS; TOLUENE;

CATALYST SELECTIVITY;

ANTHRACENE DERIVATIVE; DENDRON; FORMAMIDE; FORMAMIDE DERIVATIVE; IMINE; SILANE DERIVATIVE; TRICHLOROSILANE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

ANTHRACENES; CATALYSIS; FORMAMIDES; IMINES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SILANES;

EID: 76849088921     PISSN: 14770520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b916601g     Document Type: Article

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