Catalytic asymmetric ring-opening of meso- aziridines with malonates under heterodinuclear rare earth metal Schiff base catalysis

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5791-5793

  Xu, Yingjie ^a   Lin, Luqing ^a   Kanai, Motomu ^a   Matsunaga, Shigeki ^a   Shibasaki, Masakatsu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL CHEMISTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ESTERS; ASYMMETRIC RINGS; AZIRIDINES; HETEROBIMETALLICS; MALONATES; RARE EARTH METALS; RING OPENING REACTION; SCHIFF-BASE; SEVEN-MEMBERED RINGS;

ESTERS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; RARE EARTHS; YTTERBIUM;

FUNCTIONAL GROUPS;

AZIRIDINE DERIVATIVE; MALONIC ACID; SCHIFF BASE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; RING OPENING;

AZIRIDINES; CATALYSIS; MALONATES; METALS, RARE EARTH; SCHIFF BASES;

EID: 79954463686     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja201492x     Document Type: Article

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