ChemInform Abstract: Thiourea-Catalyzed Organocatalytic Enantioselective Michael Addition of Diphenyl Phosphite to Nitroalkenes.

✍ Scribed by Ana Alcaine; Eugenia Marques-Lopez; Pedro Merino; Tomas Tejero; Raquel P. Herrera

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 28 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201135173

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A variety of enantioenriched β‐nitrophosphonates (III) is readily obtained by asymmetric Michael addition of diphenylphosphite (II) to nitroolefins (I) in the presence of a bifunctional amine—thiourea organocatalyst.