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A Chiral Crown Ether Catalyst

Posted by naturalproductman on March 1, 2011

Peter Bako and co-workers at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics have reported in Tetrahedron Letters on the use of a chiral crown catalyst to effect asymmetric Darzens and Michael reactions.

18-crown chiral

 

TL paper

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Darzens Reaction with Brucine

Posted by naturalproductman on September 9, 2010

Tetsutaro Kimachi and co-workers at Mukogawa Women’s University have published in Synlett on an asymmetric Darzens-type reaction using brucine.

Darzens

Synlett paper

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