Enantioselective oxazaborolidinium-catalyzed Diels-Alder reactions without CH·⋯O hydrogen bonding

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 47, Issue 37, 2008, Pages 7013-7017

  Paddon Row, Michael N ^a   Kwan, Laurence C H ^b   Willis, Anthony C ^b   Sherburn, Michael S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asymmetric catalysis; Density functional calculations; Lewis acids; Lewis bases; Transition states

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COORDINATION REACTIONS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; ESTERS; HYDROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; LEWIS ACIDS; LEWIS BASES; TRANSITION STATES;

HYDROGEN BONDS;

EID: 84962384555     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200802002     Document Type: Article

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