Asymmetric michael addition of aromatic ketones to nitroolefins catalyzed by simple chiral bifunctional primary amine-thioureas

Letters in Organic Chemistry

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 367-372

  Wang, Liangliang ^a,b   Xu, Xiaoying ^a   Huang, Jun ^a,b   Peng, Lin ^a,b   Huang, Qingchun ^a   Wang, Lixin ^a  

^a CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Aromatic ketones; Michael addition; Nitroolefins; Organocatalyst; Primary amine thiourea

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955847585     PISSN: 15701786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157017810791514652     Document Type: Article

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