title: Aqueous enantioselective organocatalytic Diels-Alder reactions employing hydrazide catalysts. A new scaffold for organic acceleration.
abstract: [reaction: see text] Cyclic hydrazides function as asymmetric organocatalysts in aqueous Diels-Alder reactions. The hydrazide is employed as the catalytic machinery in a compact camphor-derived framework that imparts facial selectivity to the cycloadditions. Kinetic evidence suggests the reaction involves rapid iminium formation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa, 10 Marie Curie, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5.
authors.forename: Mathieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lemay
authors.forename: William W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Ogilvie