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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Yang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5358540 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chemical science 20160914 1
The highly enantioselective sulfa-Michael addition of alkyl thiols to unactivated β-substituted-α,β-unsaturated esters catalyzed by a bifunctional iminophosphorane (BIMP) organocatalyst is described. The low acidity of the alkyl thiol pro-nucleophiles is overcome by the high Brønsted basicity of the catalyst and the chiral scaffold/thiourea hydrogen-bond donor moiety provides the required enantiofacial discrimination in the addition step. The reaction is broad in scope with respect to the alkyl ...[more]