A bifunctional cinchona alkaloid-squaramide catalyst for the highly enantioselective conjugate addition of thiols to transchalcones

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 352, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2137-2141

  Dai, Le ^a   Wang, Su Xi ^a   Chen, Fen Er ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asymmetric catalysis; Bifunctional organocatalyst; Squaramides; Sulfa Michael addition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956898317     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: 16154169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201000334     Document Type: Article

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