Design and synthesis of novel chiral dihydroimidazolium cyclophanes as N-heterocyclic carbene precatalysts

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 53, Issue 48, 2012, Pages 6602-6605

  Lu, Ting ^a   Gu, Liuqun ^a   Kang, Qiang ^a   Zhang, Yugen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asymmetric; Cyclophane; DPEN; NHC; Organocatalysis

Indexed keywords

CARBENE; CYCLOPHANE DERIVATIVE; DIHYDROIMIDAZOLIUM CYCLOPHANE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84867898412     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: 18733581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2012.09.116     Document Type: Article

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