Enantioselective organocatalytic aldol reaction of unactivated ketones with isatins

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 52, Issue 32, 2011, Pages 4080-4083

  Allu, Suresh ^a   Molleti, Nagaraju ^b   Panem, Ramachandrarao ^a   Singh, Vinod K ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH BHOPAL   (India)

Author keywords

3 Alkyl 3 hydroxyindolin 2 ones; Enamine mechanism; Isatin; Organocatalysis; Thiourea

Indexed keywords

3 ALKYL 3 HYDROXYINDOLIN 2 ONE; CINCHONINE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; ISATIN DERIVATIVE; KETONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ALDOL REACTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; ORGANOCATALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79960403179     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: 18733581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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