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Pure Appl. Chem. 77(12), 2047-2052, 2005
DOI: 10.1351/pac200577122047

Pure and Applied Chemistry

Vol. 77, Issue 12

Recent progress in Lewis acid-Lewis base bifunctional asymmetric catalysis*

Motomu Kanai1,2, Nobuki Kato2, Eiko Ichikawa2, and Masakatsu Shibasaki1

1Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; 2PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

Abstract: Two enantioselective cyanation reactions, the Strecker reaction of ketoimines and the Reissert reaction of pyridine derivatives, promoted by Lewis acid-Lewis base bifunctional asymmetric catalysts are described.
Keywords: Bifunctional asymmetric catalysis; cyanation; Strecker reaction; ketoimines; Reissert reaction; asymmetric catalysis.

*Paper based on a presentation at the 7th IUPAC International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry (ICHAC-7), Shanghai, China, 21-25 August 2004. Other presentations are published in this issue, pp. 1985-2132.

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