Lai Wah Lai

Barriers to rotation about the chiral axis of tertiary aromatic amides

Anjum Ahmed, Ryan A. Bragg, Jonathan Clayden et al. · Tetrahedron · 1998 · 188 citations

Chiral Axis, Engineering, Tertiary Aromatic Amides +6

Enantioselective Synthesis of Atropisomeric Amides by Dynamic Resolution: Thermodynamic Control with a Proline-Derived Diamine Resolving Agent

Jonathan Clayden, Lai Wah Lai · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 1999 · 94 citations

Asymmetric Catalysis, Chemical Engineering, Cross-coupling Reaction +14

Dynamic resolution of atropisomeric amides using proline-derived imidazolines and ephedrine-derived oxazolidines

Jonathan Clayden, Lai Wah Lai, Madeleine Helliwell · Tetrahedron · 2004 · 58 citations

Combinatorial Chemistry, Engineering, Atropisomeric Amides +11

(−)-Ephedrine as an auxiliary for the asymmetric synthesis of atropisomeric amides by dynamic resolution under thermodynamic control

Jonathan Clayden, Lai Wah Lai · Tetrahedron Letters · 2001 · 52 citations

Atropisomeric Amides, Organic Chemistry, Dynamic Resolution +7

Using amide conformation to ‘project’ the stereochemistry of an (−)-ephedrine-derived oxazolidine: a pair of pseudoenantiomeric chiral amido-phosphine ligands

Jonathan Clayden, Lai Wah Lai, Madeleine Helliwell · Tetrahedron Asymmetry · 2001 · 47 citations

Organic Chemistry, Stereoselective Synthesis, Amide Conformation +6