Recent progress in Lewis acid-Lewis base bifunctional asymmetric catalysis

Kanai, Motomu; Kato, Nobuki; Ichikawa, Eiko; Shibasaki, Masakatsu

doi:10.1351/pac200577122047

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Pure Appl. Chem., 2005, Vol. 77, No. 12, pp. 2047-2052

http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac200577122047

Recent progress in Lewis acid-Lewis base bifunctional asymmetric catalysis

Motomu Kanai^1,2, Nobuki Kato², Eiko Ichikawa² and Masakatsu Shibasaki¹

¹ Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
² PRESTO, 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.