An examination of VANOL, VAPOL, and VAPOL derivatives as ligands for asymmetric catalytic Diels-Alder reactions

…, DR Goldberg, H Wu, WD Wulff

Index: Hu, Gang; Holmes, Daniel; Gendhar, Brina Fay; Wulff, William D. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009 , vol. 131, # 40 p. 14355 - 14364

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Abstract

Several derivatives of the vaulted biaryl ligand VAPOL were prepared and evaluated as chiral ligands for aluminum Lewis acids in the catalytic asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions of methyl acrylate and methacrolein with cyclopentadiene. The substituents on VAPOL were