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New, Chiral Phase Transfer Catalysts for Effecting Asymmetric Conjugate Additions of α-Alkyl-α-cyanoacetates to Acetylenic Esters

Journal of the American Chemical SocietyPublished 17 January 2007
Xi‐Sheng Wang, Masanori Kitamura, Keiji Maruoka
Citations132
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score5.55
SNIP2.61

Abstract

A new, chiral phase transfer catalyst has been designed for the development of a general and useful procedure on the hitherto unknown, asymmetric conjugate additions of α-substituted-α-cyanoacetates to acetylenic esters with high enantioselectivity and moderate E/Z selectivity.

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ChemistryBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology