Front Cover: Asymmetric Michael Reaction of Aldehydes and Dicyanoalkenes Catalyzed by Diphenylprolinol Silyl Ether (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 48/2018).

Hayashi, Yujiro; Kranidiotis‐Hisatomi, Nektarios; Sakamoto, Daisuke; Oritani, Kyohei; Kawamoto, Takuji; Kamimura, Akio

The Front Cover shows a schematic impression of the developed Michael reaction of aldehydes and dicyanoalkenes. The reaction is represented as a gardening process, to emphasize the connection of organocatalysis and green chemistry. The starting materials coexisting in the reaction mixture are shown in a flower pot, while the organocatalyst is represented as a cloud, the main source of water for the seed. The Michael adduct is depicted as a shoot, which can be later transformed into other useful chiral compounds, illustrated as different kinds of flowers. Communication by Y. Hayashi et al.

ALDEHYDES; MICHAEL reaction; ALKENES; SILYL ethers; ORGANOCATALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE chemistry

European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2018, Vol 2018, Issue 48, p6809

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Academic Journal

10.1002/ejoc.201801418