Organocatalytic enantioselective hydroxymethylation of oxindoles with paraformaldehyde as C1 unit

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 75, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4872-4875

  Liu, Xiong Li ^a,c   Liao, Yu Hua ^a,c   Wu, Zhi Jun ^b,c   Cun, Lin Feng ^a   Zhang, Xiao Mei ^a   Yuan, Wei Cheng ^a  

^a CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFUNCTIONAL; ENANTIOSELECTIVE; HIGH ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; HYDROXYMETHYLATION; MILD REACTION CONDITIONS; ORGANOCATALYSTS; ORGANOCATALYTIC; OXINDOLES; PARAFORMALDEHYDES; QUATERNARY CARBON; STERICALLY CONGESTED; TERTIARY AMINE;

ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; THIOUREAS; UREA;

ACETAL RESINS;

AMINE; CARBON; OXINDOLE; PARAFORMALDEHYDE; THIOUREA;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; METHYLATION; QUANTUM YIELD; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

CATALYSIS; FORMALDEHYDE; INDOLES; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYMERS; STEREOISOMERISM; THIOUREA;

EID: 77954543828     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: 15206904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo100769n     Document Type: Article

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