Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.135, No.33, 12160-12163, 2013
Procedure-Controlled Enantioselectivity Switch in Organocatalytic 2-Oxazolidinone Synthesis
In a novel organocatalytic formal [3 + 2] cycloaddition to afford chiral 2-oxazolidinones, an enantioselectivity switch could be induced by changing the manner of addition of the reactants, even when the reaction components (cinchona-alkaloid-derived aminothiourea catalyst, substrates, and solvent) were the same.