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Synfacts 2011(11): 1218-1218  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1289212
Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis and Stereoselective Reactions
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Tetradentate Amine Ligands for Asymmetric Friedel-Crafts Alkylations

Contributor(s): Mark Lautens, Stephen G. Newman
J. Wu, X. Li, F. Wu, B. Wan*
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, P. R. of China
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19 October 2011 (online)

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The development of new chiral ligands is an ongoing and important process for designing improved catalysts. Based on previous studies using novel tetradentate amine ligands for copper-catalyzed Henry reactions (Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16, 8259), the authors present a highly asymmetric Friedel-Crafts addition of indoles to nitroalkenes.