Enantioselective formation of all-carbon quaternary stereocenters from indoles and tertiary alcohols bearing a directing group

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1910-1913

  Zhao, Wanxiang ^a   Wang, Zhaobin ^a   Chu, Boyang ^a   Sun, Jianwei ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Asymmetric catalysis; Enantioselectivity; Heterocycles; Organocatalysis; Synthetic methods

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATALYSIS; REACTION KINETICS;

ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; C-C BOND FORMATION; ENANTIOSELECTIVE FORMATION; HETEROCYCLES; ORGANOCATALYSIS; QUATERNARY STEREOCENTERS; SYNTHETIC METHODS; TERTIARY ALCOHOLS;

ENANTIOSELECTIVITY;

EID: 85027918784     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201405252     Document Type: Article

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