Ishikawa Tsutomu, Isobe Toshio
Department of Medicinal Organic Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Inage, Japan.
Chemistry. 2002 Feb 2;8(3):552-7. doi: 10.1002/1521-3765(20020201)8:3<552::AID-CHEM552>3.0.CO;2-T.
Investigations on modified guanidines, prepared by newly developed methods, as potential chiral auxiliaries led to reasonable asymmetric induction not only in catalytic but also in stoichiometric asymmetric syntheses. These guanidine-mediated reactions may contribute to the development of green chemistry because of their possible application as re-cyclable (economically favored) and easily functionalizable (widely applicable) auxiliaries.