Cationic Chiral Fluorinated Oxazaborolidines. More Potent, Second-Generation Catalysts for Highly Enantioselective Cycloaddition Reactions

…, B Thirupathi, S Breitler, S Yu, EJ Corey

Index: Mukherjee, Santanu; Corey Organic Letters, 2010 , vol. 12, # 5 p. 1024 - 1027

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Abstract

The coordination of chiral ligands to Lewis acid metal derivatives, a useful strategy for enantioselective, electrophilic catalysis, generally leads to a lower level of catalytic activity than that of the original uncomplexed compound. Activation by further attachment of a proton