Practical enantioselective reduction of ketones using oxazaborolidine catalyst generated in situ from chiral lactam alcohol and borane

Highly enantioselective borane reduction of ketones catalyzed by chiral oxazaborolidines. Mechanism and synthetic implications

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A stable and easily prepared catalyst for the enantioselective reduction of ketones. Applications to multistep syntheses

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Catalytic asymmetric induction. Highly enantioselective addition of dialkylzincs to aldehydes

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Asymmetric syntheses with chiral oxazaborolidines

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Practical and Useful Methods for the Enantioselective Reduction of Unsymmetrical Ketones

Vinod K. Singh · Synthesis · 1992 · 287 citations

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