Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Discovery and enantiocontrol of axially chiral urazoles via organocatalytic tyrosine click reaction

  • Ji-Wei Zhang,
  • Jin-Hui Xu,
  • Dao-Juan Cheng,
  • Chuan Shi,
  • Xin-Yuan Liu,
  • Bin Tan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10677
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Axially chiral compounds play an important role in areas such as asymmetric catalysis. Here, the authors report an organocatalytic asymmetric tyrosine click-like reaction, giving access to enantio enriched urazoles with restricted rotation around an N-C bond.