Other Amino Acids as Asymmetric Organocatalysts

VINCENT COEFFARD, CHRISTINE GRECK, XAVIER MOREAU AND CHRISTINE THOMASSIGNY 

Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, UMR CNRS 8180, Universite de Versailles-St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 45 Avenue des Etats-Unis, 

78035 Versailles cedex, France Email christine.greck uvsq.fr 

The aldol addition is known as one of the most important carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions, leading to a p-hydro y carbonyl structural unit which is frequently found in bioactive molecules. The seminal works in 

Sustainable Catalysis Without Metals or Other Endangered Elements, Part 1 

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