Catalytic asymmetric reaction of lithium ester enolates with imines
Chemical Communications Pub Date : 01/01/1900 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/A901424A
Abstract
An external chiral tridentate amino diether ligand 7 catalyzed the condensation reaction of a lithium ester enolate 2 with an imine 3 to give the enantiomerically enriched β-lactam 4 in high yield.