ChemInform Abstract: Enantioselective [4 + 2] Cycloaddition of Ketenes and 1-Azadienes Catalyzed by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes.

✍ Scribed by Teng-Yue Jian; Pan-Lin Shao; Song Ye

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 35 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201126154

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

An enantioselective synthesis of highly substituted dihydropyridin‐2‐ones is realized using an unprecedented NHC‐catalyzed cycloaddition of 1‐azadienes and ketenes.