Highly Enantioselective Conjugate Additions of Aldehydes to Vinyl Sulfones
Chemistry - A European JournalPublished 2 January 2009Open access
Aitor Landa, M.A. Maestro, Carme Masdeu, Ángel Puente, Silvia Vera, Mikel Oiarbide
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A diaryl prolinol silyl ether was found to catalyse efficiently and enantioselectively the conjugate addition of aldehydes to vinyl sulfones and the ample synthetic utility of the resulting adducts is illustrated.
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Joined together, organocatalysts aldehydes and sulfones: A diaryl prolinol silyl ether was found to catalyse efficiently and enantioselectively the conjugate addition of aldehydes to vinyl sulfones (see scheme). The ample synthetic utility of the resulting adducts is illustrated.
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