New chiral scaffolds with either bipyridine or terpyridine backbonehave been developed for the asymmetric Nazarov reaction of polarized dienones.The preparation of these chiral ligands, electrocyclization catalysis in thepresence of various Lewis acids and factors that influence enantioinduction willbe discussed.

Asymmetric catalysis of the polarized Nazarov reaction

242nd National Meeting (2011)

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