The 25th ISHC Congress–Santa Barbara CA Aug 23-28, 2015
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Title:
Enantioselective N-heterocyclic carbene catalysis with ester substrates.
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N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) are powerful catalysts for some of the most diverse
chemical transformations observed in organocatalysis.1 Beyond acyl anion chemistry they
are active in many reactions that are acyl anion free often exploiting normal polarity
intermediates.2 A number of our studies in the field of NHC catalysis are focused on
reaction discovery using ester, and ester surrogate, substrates. In this presentation recent
discoveries in enantioselective catalysis using Lewis basic, and nucleophilic, catalysts will
be discussed
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Enders, D.; Niemeier, O.; Henseler, A. Chem. Rev. 2007, 107, 5606.
Ryan, S. J.; Candish, L. Lupton, D. W. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2013, 42, 4906.