A novel phosphine-catalyzed, highly enantioselective umpolung addition of trifluoromethyl ketimines to Morita-Baylis-Hillman carbonates was developed and it provides facile access to optically active trifluoromethyl amines with a chiral tertiary stereocenter under mild reaction conditions. The salient features of this reaction include general substrate scope, mild reaction conditions, good yields, high enantioselectivity, ease of scale-up to gram scale, and further transformations of the products.
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