Enantioselective Michael addition of β-keto esters to methyl vinyl ketone employing a chiral N,N′-dioxide–scandium trifluoromethanesulfonate complex as a catalyst
- 6 August 2001
- journal article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 17,p. 1596-1597
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b104876g
Abstract
An enantioselective Michael addition of β-keto esters to methyl vinyl ketone exploiting a chiral N,N′-dioxide–scandium trifluoromethanesulfonate complex as a catalyst affords the corresponding Michael adducts in high yields and with enantioselectivities of up to 80% ee.Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: