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SUBMITTER: Akalay D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2533436 | biostudies-literature | 2008
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Akalay Deniz D Dürner Gerd G Bats Jan W JW Göbel Michael W MW
Beilstein journal of organic chemistry 20080807
C(2)-symmetric bisamidines 8 have been tested as chiral Brønsted bases in the Diels-Alder reaction of anthrones and N-substituted maleimides. High yields of cycloadducts and significant asymmetric inductions up to 76% ee are accessible. The proposed mechanism involves proton transfer between anthrone and bisamidine, association of the resulting ions and finally a cycloaddition step stereoselectively controlled by the chiral ion pair. ...[more]