Enantioselective desymmetrizations promoted by bifunctional organocatalysts

Current Organocatalysis

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 107-171

  Quintavalla, Arianna ^a   Cerisoli, Lucia ^a   Montroni, Elisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bifunctional activation; Desymmetrization; Enantioselectivity; Meso compound; Organocatalysis; Prochiral substrate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950284808     PISSN: 22133372     EISSN: 22133380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/2213337201666141003222456     Document Type: Article

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