Giovanni Desimoni

A new and highly efficient catalyst for the enantioselective Mukaiyama–Michael reaction between ( E )-3-crotonoyl-1,3-oxazolidin-2-one and 2-trimethylsilyloxyfuran

Giovanni Desimoni, Giuseppe Faita, Salvatore Filippone et al. · Tetrahedron · 2001 · 102 citations

Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Organic Chemistry +8

Asymmetric Friedel–Crafts Alkylation of Indoles with Methyl (<i>E</i>)‐2‐Oxo‐4‐aryl‐3‐butenoates Catalyzed by Sc(OTf)₃/pybox

Giovanni Desimoni, Giuseppe Faita, Marco Toscanini et al. · Chemistry - A European Journal · 2008 · 69 citations

Enantioselective Synthesis, Derivatives, Asymmetric Friedel–crafts Alkylation +14

The first enantioselective synthesis of both Diels-Alder enantiomers with the same bis(oxazoline)-magnesium perchlorate chiral catalyst

Giovanni Desimoni, Giuseppe Faita, P. P. RIGHETTI · Tetrahedron Letters · 1996 · 67 citations

Diels-alder Enantiomers, Same Bis, Organic Chemistry +5

Solvent effect as the result of frontier molecular orbital interaction. V. Diels-Alder with heterodienophiles: a unified approach to the solvent effect of the Diels-Alder reactions

Giovanni Desimoni, Giuseppe Faita, P. P. RIGHETTI et al. · Tetrahedron · 1990 · 65 citations

Cross-coupling Reaction, Engineering, Alkene Metathesis +6

Can a chiral catalyst containing the same ligand/metal components promote the formation of both enantiomers enantioselectively? The bis(oxazoline)-magnesium perchlorate-catalyzed asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction

Giovanni Desimoni, Giuseppe Faita, Anna Gamba Invernizzi et al. · Tetrahedron · 1997 · 63 citations

Engineering, Organic Chemistry, Organometallic Catalysis +7