Zhou Jian, Tang Yong
State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, 354 Fenglin Lu, Shanghai 200032, China.
Org Biomol Chem. 2004 Feb 7;2(3):429-33. doi: 10.1039/b313796a. Epub 2004 Jan 14.
Air- and water-stable chiral catalyst trisoxazolines4-6 /Cu(ClO(4))(2)[middle dot]6H(2)O have been used in the Diels-Alder reaction of cyclopentadiene with acryloyl-2-oxazolidinones or ketoesters. The reaction is carried out in air and up to 82% ee was achieved.