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Novel bifunctional thiourea–ammonium salt catalysts derived from amino acids: application to highly enantio-and diastereoselective aza-Henry reaction

HY Wang, Z Chai, G Zhao

Index: Wang, Hong-Yu; Chai, Zhuo; Zhao, Gang Tetrahedron, 2013 , vol. 69, # 25 p. 5104 - 5111

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Abstract

The development of new efficient and easily accessible catalysts has been one of the focuses in asymmetric phase-transfer catalysis. In this paper, a novel class of chiral bifunctional thiourea–ammonium phase-transfer catalysts were synthesized from commercially available α-amino acids. The structural modularity of these catalysts permits facile tunings to achieve optimum results, which was demonstrated in catalyzing the aza- ...