Thiourea-catalyzed highly diastereo- and enantioselective conjugate additions of α-substituted cyanoacetates to maleimides: Efficient construction of vicinal quaternary-tertiary stereocenters

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 353, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1720-1728

  Liao, Yu Hua ^a,d   Liu, Xiong Li ^a,d   Wu, Zhi Jun ^b   Du, Xi Lin ^c   Zhang, Xiao Mei ^a   Yuan, Wei Cheng ^a  

^a CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

substituted cyanoacetates; bifunctional thioureas; maleimides; Michael addition; organocatalysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960451642     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: 16154169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201100086     Document Type: Article

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