Highly enantio- and diastereoselective Mannich reactions of glycine Schiff bases with in situ generated N-Boc-imines catalyzed by a cinchona alkaloid thiourea.

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The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology and The Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037.

Published: February 2010

Highly enantio- and diastereoselective organocatalytic Mannich reactions of glycine Schiff bases with N-Boc-protected imines are described. Imines were generated in situ from bench-stable alpha-amido sulfones. Catalysis mediated by a cinchona alkaloid thiourea provided optically active alpha,beta-diamino acid derivatives with up to 99% ee and near-perfect diastereoselection.

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