"One-Pot" Access to 4 H-chromenes with formation of a chiral quaternary stereogenic center by a highly enantioselective iminium-allenamine involved oxa-Michael-aldol cascade

Organic Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 4948-4951

  Liu, Chunliang ^a,b   Zhang, Xinshuai ^b   Wang, Rui ^a   Wang, Wei ^b,c  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-HYDROXYBUTANAL; ALDEHYDE; ALDOL; ALKADIENE; ALLENE; AMINE; BENZOPYRAN DERIVATIVE; IMINE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALDEHYDES; ALKADIENES; AMINES; BENZOPYRANS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; IMINES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXYGEN; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 78049501332     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: 15237052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol102096s     Document Type: Article

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