Organic Letters, cilt.8, sa.21, ss.4687-4690, 2006 (SCI-Expanded)
(Chemical Equation Presented) A new chiral aziridino alcohol ligand for zinc(II)-catalyzed azomethine ylide cycloadditions is described. In the presence of this catalyst, N-arylidene glycine methyl esters react with a variety of dipolarophiles to give substituted pyrrolidines in very good to excellent chemical yields and up to 95% ee. The absolute sense of asymmetric induction appears to be dipolarophile-dependent. © 2006 American Chemical Society.