Enantioselective organo-SOMO cascade cycloadditions: A rapid approach to molecular complexity from simple aldehydes and olefins

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 132, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 10015-10017

  Jui, Nathan T ^a   Lee, Esther C Y ^a   MacMillan, David W C ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC ALDEHYDE; CHEMICAL EFFICIENCY; COUPLING REACTION; CYCLIC PRODUCTS; CYCLOADDITIONS; ENAMINES; ENANTIOSELECTIVE; MOLECULAR COMPLEXITY; NUCLEOPHILIC ADDITIONS; OLEFIN ADDITION; RADICAL CATIONS;

ADDITION REACTIONS; ALDEHYDES; CHEMICAL BONDS; POSITIVE IONS; STYRENE;

OLEFINS;

ALDEHYDE; ALKENE; CATION; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRAL CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHIRALITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYCLOADDITION; DIASTEREOISOMER; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; OXIDATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALDEHYDES; ALKENES; BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; CATALYSIS; CYCLOHEXANES; KINETICS; STEREOISOMERISM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77955826131     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja104313x     Document Type: Article

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