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SUBMITTER: Krenske EH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3005816 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krenske Elizabeth H EH Houk K N KN Lim Daniel D Wengryniuk Sarah E SE Coltart Don M DM
The Journal of organic chemistry 20101111 24
Density functional theory calculations and experiment reveal the origin of stereoselectivity in the deprotonation-alkylation of chiral N-amino cyclic carbamate (ACC) hydrazones. When the ACC is a rigid, camphor-derived carbamate, the two conformations of the azaenolate intermediate differ in energy due to conformational effects within the oxazolidinone ring and steric interactions between the ACC and the azaenolate. An electrophile adds selectively to the less-hindered π-face of the azaenolate. ...[more]