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Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
E-mail: zhaog@mail.sioc.ac.cn
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Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Lu, Shanghai 200032, China
Chem. Commun., 2010,46, 4130-4132
DOI:
10.1039/C002552F
Received
05 Feb 2010,
Accepted
01 Apr 2010
First published online
29 Apr 2010
Primary–secondary diamines perform as efficient organocatalysts for the asymmetric addition of nitroalkanes to enones, giving the Michael adducts with excellent yields and enantioselectivities.