David A. Evans

Enantioselective aldol condensations. 2. Erythro-selective chiral aldol condensations via boron enolates

David A. Evans, Javier Bartrolí, Thomas L. Shih · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1981 · 1.5K citations

Enantioselective Synthesis, Altmetric Attention Score, Organic Chemistry +9

Asymmetric alkylation reactions of chiral imide enolates. A practical approach to the enantioselective synthesis of .alpha.-substituted carboxylic acid derivatives

David A. Evans, Michael D. Ennis, David J. Mathre · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1982 · 1K citations

Engineering, Asymmetric Alkylation Reactions, Practical Approach +10

Bis(oxazolines) as chiral ligands in metal-catalyzed asymmetric reactions. Catalytic, asymmetric cyclopropanation of olefins

David A. Evans, K. A. Woerpel, Mira M. Hinman et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1991 · 960 citations

Chiral Ligands, Chemical Engineering, Asymmetric Cyclopropanation +14

Directed reduction of .beta.-hydroxy ketones employing tetramethylammonium triacetoxyborohydride

David A. Evans, Kevin T. Chapman, Erick M. Carreira · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1988 · 941 citations

Novel Organocatalysts, Molecular Sciences, Engineering +12

Synthesis of diaryl ethers through the copper-promoted arylation of phenols with arylboronic acids. An expedient synthesis of thyroxine

David A. Evans, Jeffrey L. Katz, Theodore R West · Tetrahedron Letters · 1998 · 845 citations

Arylboronic Acids, Chemical Engineering, Engineering +6