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SUBMITTER: Banik SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5728151 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20171101 6364
Small-molecule dual hydrogen-bond (H-bond) donors such as ureas, thioureas, squaramides, and guanidinium ions enjoy widespread use as effective catalysts for promoting a variety of enantioselective reactions. However, these catalysts are only weakly acidic and therefore require highly reactive electrophilic substrates to be effective. We introduce here a mode of catalytic activity with chiral H-bond donors that enables enantioselective reactions of relatively unreactive electrophiles. Squaramide ...[more]