Volume 19, Issue 4 pp. 419-422
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Asymmetric Hetero Diels-Alder Reaction of Chiral Imines with Danishefsky's Diene Catalyzed by Yb(OTf)3

Chang-Tao Qian

Chang-Tao Qian

Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 200032, China

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Long-Cheng Wang

Long-Cheng Wang

Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 200032, China

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Rui-Fang Chen

Rui-Fang Chen

Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 200032, China

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First published: 26 August 2010
Citations: 4

Abstract

Reaction of chiral imines with Danishefsky's diene in the presence of a catalytic amount (20 mol%) of ytterbium triflate afforded the corresponding hetero Diels-Alder adducts with a moderate to good diastereoselectivity.

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