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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bui, Tommy
• Hernández-Torres, Gloria
• Milite, Ciro
• Barbas, Carlos F

Titel

Highly Enantioselective Organocatalytic α-Amination Reactions of Aryl Oxindoles: Developing Designer Multifunctional Alkaloid Catalysts

Ist Teil von

• Organic letters, 2010-12, Vol.12 (24), p.5696-5699

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Chemical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• An enantioselective α-amination of aryl oxindoles catalyzed by a dimeric quinidine has been developed. The reaction is general, broad in substrate scope, and affords the desired products in good yields with good to excellent enantioselectivities. This study provides the first examples of a general organocatalytic method for the creation of nitrogen-containing, tetrasubstituted chiral centers at C3 of various aryl oxindoles. Furthermore, new catalysts and insights into structural elements of the catalysts that significantly influence enantioselectivities are disclosed.