ChemInform Abstract: Organocatalytic Chemoselective Asymmetric N-Allylic Alkylation of Enamides.

✍ Scribed by Ji-Rong Huang; Hai-Lei Cui; Jie Lei; Xun-Hao Sun; Ying-Chun Chen

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 38 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201135083

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The first chemoselective asymmetric N‐allylic alkylation of enamides (I) and (IV) with Morita—Baylis—Hillman carbonates (II) by the metal‐free catalysis of modified cinchona alkaloids is described.