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SUBMITTER: Malerich JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2701638 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Malerich Jeremiah P JP Hagihara Koji K Rawal Viresh H VH
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20081011 44
Thioureas represent the dominant platform for hydrogen bond promoted asymmetric catalysts. A large number of reactions, reported in scores of publications, have been successfully promoted by chiral thioureas. The present paper reports the use of squaramides as a highly effective new scaffold for the development of chiral hydrogen bond donor catalysts. Squaramide catalysts are very simple to prepare. The (-)-cinchonine modified squaramide (5), easily prepared through a two-step process from methy ...[more]