Pyrrolidine-linker-camphor assembly: Bifunctional organocatalysts for efficient Michael addition of cyclohexanone to nitroolefins under neat conditions

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2010.11.093

A simple and convenient strategy was developed to synthesize a new class of pyrrolidinyl-camphor based bifunctional organocatalysts possessing varying functional linkers. Catalytic screening of these camphor-pyrrolidine linked derivatives for asymmetric M