Chiral N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed generation of ester enolate equivalents from a,β-unsaturated aldehydes for enantioselective Diels-Alder reactions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 48, 2010, Pages 20661-20665

  Kaeobamrung, Juthanat ^a,b   Kozlowski, Marisa C ^a,b   Bode, Jeffrey W ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric synthesis; Catalysis; Reaction mechanism

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; CARBENE; ENOLATE; ESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFORMATION; DIELS ALDER REACTION; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

ALNUS;

EID: 78650574221     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007469107     Document Type: Article

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