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Carboxylates as Nucleophiles in the Enantioselective Ring-Opening of Formylcyclopropanes under Iminium Ion Catalysis
Díaz, Estibaliz,Reyes, Efraim,Uria, Uxue,Carrillo, Luisa,Tejero, Tomas,Merino, Pedro,Vicario, Jose L.
, p. 8764 - 8768 (2018)
In this work, carboxylic acids, which are typically regarded as poor nucleophiles, are demonstrated to be competent reagents to promote the ring-opening of formylcyclopropanes after activation of the latter through iminium ion formation. Under optimized r
