SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL CHIRAL QUATERNARY PHOSPHONIUM SALTS WITH A MULTIPLE HYDROGEN-BONDING SITE, AND THEIR APPLICATION TO ASYMMETRIC PHASE-TRANSFER ALKYLATION
K. Manabe, SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL CHIRAL QUATERNARY PHOSPHONIUM SALTS WITH A MULTIPLE HYDROGEN-BONDING SITE, AND THEIR APPLICATION TO ASYMMETRIC PHASE-TRANSFER ALKYLATION, Tetrahedron, 54(48), 1998, pp. 14465-14476
Chiral phosphonium salts having two NH and two OH groups as hydrogen-b
ond donors have been synthesized as novel phase-transfer catalysts, an
d used for asymmetric alkylation of beta-keto esters to give the corre
sponding products with up to 50% ee. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. Al
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