Simon E. de Sousa

Enantioselective rearrangement of a meso-cyclohexene oxide using norephedrine-derived chiral bases

Bob Colman, Simon E. de Sousa, Peter O’Brien et al. · Tetrahedron Asymmetry · 1999 · 42 citations

Chemical Engineering, Novel Organocatalysts, Engineering +8

A new norephedrine-derived chiral base for epoxide rearrangement reactions

Simon E. de Sousa, Peter O’Brien, H. Christian Steffens · Tetrahedron Letters · 1999 · 40 citations

Organic Chemistry, Stereoselective Synthesis, Chemistry +3

Two expedient methods for the preparation of chiral diamines

Simon E. de Sousa, Peter O’Brien, Pierre Poumellec · Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1 · 1998 · 38 citations

Asymmetric Catalysis, Derivatives, One-pot Preparation +11

Optimisation of enantioselectivity for the chiral base-mediated rearrangement of bis-protected meso-4,5-dihydroxycyclohexene oxides: asymmetric synthesis of 4-deoxyconduritols and conduritol F

Simon E. de Sousa, Peter O’Brien, Christopher D. Pilgram · Tetrahedron · 2002 · 36 citations

Engineering, Natural Sciences, Diversity-oriented Synthesis +11

Aziridinium ions from phenylglycinol — A new approach to the synthesis of chiral diamines

Simon E. de Sousa, Peter O’Brien · Tetrahedron Letters · 1997 · 35 citations

Engineering, Aziridinium Ions, Biochemistry +10