Lewis acid-catalyzed asymmetric reactions of β,γ-unsaturated 2-acyl imidazoles

The investigation of reactivity of β,γ-unsaturated carbonyl compounds is of great synthetic value, especially in asymmetric transformations. Here, the authors report a catalytic asymmetric tandem isomerization/α-Michael addition of β,γ-unsaturated 2-acyl imidazoles in presence of chiral N,N′-dioxide...

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Main Authors: Tengfei Kang, Liuzhen Hou, Sai Ruan, Weidi Cao, Xiaohua Liu, Xiaoming Feng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17681-9