Easy routes towards chiral lithium binaphthylamido catalysts for the asymmetric hydroamination of amino-1,3-dienes and aminoalkenes

Article abstract of DOI:10.1002/ejoc.201001596

The preparation of chiral lithium salts of N,N′-disubstituted binaphthyldiamines and their use as catalysts for asymmetric hydroamination/cyclisation of amino-1,3-dienes and aminoalkenes are reported. Several straightforward methods involving the combinat