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SUBMITTER: Liu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2730660 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20090101 2
In this communication, we describe an unprecedented highly enantioselective catalytic conjugate addition of simple alkyl thiols to alpha,beta-unsaturated N-acylated oxazolidin-2-ones catalyzed by acid-base bifunctional catalysis. This reaction provides a useful catalytic method for the synthesis of optically active chiral sulfur compounds that are otherwise difficult to prepare by asymmetric catalysis. The successful development of this reaction resulted from a discovery that, upon proper modifi ...[more]