Highly enantioselective Diels-Alder reactions of maleimides catalyzed by activated chiral oxazaborolidines.
Diels-Alder reactions of various combinations of maleimides and 1,3-dienes with cationic oxazaborolidines as catalysts have been shown to be highly efficient and enantioselective.
Mukherjee
Santanu
S
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Corey
E J
EJ
D000475:Alkenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D001896:Boron Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D002384:Catalysis; D003500:Cyclization; D008301:Maleimides / Q000737:chemistry*; D015394:Molecular Structure; D013237:Stereoisomerism
D000475:Alkenes; D001896:Boron Compounds; D008301:Maleimides