Sl. Yao et al., CATALYTIC ENANTIOSELECTIVE ENE REACTIONS OF IMINES - A SIMPLE APPROACH FOR THE FORMATION OF OPTICALLY-ACTIVE ALPHA-AMINO-ACIDS, Chemical communications, (22), 1998, pp. 2547-2548
A highly enantioselective ene reaction of readily available tosyl a-im
ino esters with alkenes catalysed by only 0.1 mol% of chiral CuPF6-BIN
AP complexes is presented.