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Exo-selective asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction of acrylate ester
Masato Kawamura1, Kazuaki Kudo
1Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Chirality
|September 19, 2002
Abstract:
Diels-Alder reaction of 2-acryloyloxy-2'-(2-pyridylazo)-1,1'-binaphthyl with cyclopentadiene in the presence of an equimolar amount of tin(IV) chloride showed unusual exo-selectivity with a high degree of diastereofacial differentiation.