A diastereoselective and concise synthesis of functionalised vinyl epoxides with a Morita-Baylis-Hillman backbone.
A highly diastereoselective organocatalytic synthesis of unique functionalised vinyl epoxides, displaying a Morita-Baylis-Hillman backbone, has been developed by means of an user friendly sulfonium ylide epoxidation of aldehydes from a readily available alpha-(bromomethyl)acrylamide derivative. The first result in the asymmetric version is discussed.
Davoust
Marion
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Laboratoire de Chimie Moléculaire et Thio-organique (UMR CNRS 6507), ENSICaen-Université, 6 Boulevard du Maréchal Juin, F-14050, Caen, France.
Brière
Jean-François
JF
Metzner
Patrick
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