Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto M5S 3H6, Canada.
Abstract:
Crystal structure and activation entropy data indicate that H-bond directed diaza-Cope rearrangement of chiral diimines takes place with a high degree of preorganization. CD spectroscopy and HPLC data show that there is inversion of stereochemistry for the reaction with excellent enantioselectivity.