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SUBMITTER: Chi Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2715144 | biostudies-literature | 2006 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20060501 21
Organocatalytic Mannich addition of aldehydes to a formaldehyde-derived iminium species catalyzed by proline-derived chiral pyrrolidines provides beta-amino aldehydes with >/=90% ee. Mechanistic analysis of the proline-catalyzed reactions suggests that non-hydrogen-bonded ionic interactions at the Mannich reaction transition state can influence stereochemical outcome. The beta-amino aldehydes from our process bear a substituent adjacent to the carbonyl and can be efficiently converted to protect ...[more]