Department of Chemistry & Pharmaceutical Sciences and Amsterdam Institute of Molecules, Medicines and Systems, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
An efficient combination of MAO-N-catalyzed desymmetrization of cyclic meso-amines with Ugi-Smiles multicomponent chemistry produced optically pure N-aryl proline amides. This method represents the first report of a fully asymmetric Ugi-Smiles process.