title: Organocatalytic asymmetric hydrophosphination of nitroalkenes.
abstract: The use of a bifunctional Cinchona alkaloid catalyst has provided a new organocatalytic strategy for the enantioselective addition of diphenylphosphine to a range of nitroalkenes, affording optically active beta-nitrophosphines (up to 99% ee after crystallization); this organocatalytic approach, providing a direct route to a new class of potentially useful enantiopure P,N-ligands, constitutes a bridge between the two complementary areas of asymmetric catalysis: organo- and metal-catalyzed transformations.
authors: Dipartimento di Chimica Organica A. Mangini, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, V.le Risorgimento 4 - 40136 Bologna, Italy.
authors: Giuseppe
authors: G
authors: Bartoli
authors: Marcella
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authors: Bosco
authors: Armando
authors: A
authors: Carlone
authors: Manuela
authors: M
authors: Locatelli
authors: Andrea
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authors: Mazzanti
authors: Letizia
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authors: Sambri
authors: Paolo
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authors: Melchiorre