Iminium Catalysis

Enantioselective Organocatalysis: Reactions and Experimental Procedures

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 95-120

  Lelais, Gérald ^a   MacMillan, David W C ^b  

^a Genomic Institute of the Novetis Foundation   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1,4 addition reactions; Catalysis concept of iminium activation; Cycloaddition reactions; Development of imidazolidinone catalysts; Iminium catalysis; Organocatalytic cascade reactions; Transfer hydrogenation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959886197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527610945.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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