ChemInform Abstract: MgI2-Accelerated Enantioselective Morita—Baylis—Hillman Reactions of Cyclopentenone Utilizing a Chiral DMAP Catalyst.

✍ Scribed by Alejandro Bugarin; Brian T. Connell

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 21 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201035026

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Fu′s planar‐chiral DMAP derivative (I) and MgI~2~ represent an efficient catalytic system for the asymmetric Morita—Baylis—Hillman reaction of aldehydes (II) with cyclopentenone (III).