- Highly efficient catalytic enantioselective Mannich reaction of malonates with N-tert-butoxycarbonyl imines by using Yb(OTf)3/pybox catalysts at room temperature.
Highly efficient catalytic enantioselective Mannich reaction of malonates with N-tert-butoxycarbonyl imines by using Yb(OTf)3/pybox catalysts at room temperature.
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2013-06-22)
Babak Karimi, Ehsan Jafari, Dieter Enders
PMID23787963
ABSTRACT
Go Mannich! A highly efficient and enantioselective method for the direct asymmetric reaction of dibenzyl malonate with N-tert-butoxycarbonyl aldimines in the presence of Yb(OTf)3 and iPr-pybox complexes is described (see scheme; pybox = pyridine bisoxazoline).
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