Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.131, No.36, 12882-12882, 2009
Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Governed Anti-Diastereoselective and Enantioselective Hetero-Diels-Alder Reaction of Glyoxylate
A highly enantioselective anti-diastereoselective hetero-Diets-Alder reaction between a glyoxylate and siloxy- or methoxydienes using a chiral phosphoric acid catalyst that possesses less bulky phenyl groups at the 3 and 3' positions of binaphthyl has been developed. The diastereoselectivities presented are disparate to those previously reported for hetero-Diets-Alder reactions catalyzed by a chiral Lewis acid.