Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lin Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7533150 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20200311 12
β-Amino esters are obtained with high levels of enantioselectivity via the conjugate addition of cyclic amines to unactivated α,β-unsaturated esters. A related strategy enables the kinetic resolution of racemic cyclic 2-arylamines, using benzyl acrylate as the resolving agent. Reactions are facilitated by an unprecedented selenourea-thiourea organocatalyst. As elucidated by DFT calculations and <sup>13</sup>C kinetic isotope effect studies, the rate-limiting and enantiodetermining step of the re ...[more]