Département de chimie moléculaire

New family member: A conceptually new family of modular aminal–pyrrolidine organocatalysts was prepared by diversity-oriented synthesis. The catalytic properties of these organocatalysts could easily be tuned by varying the different substituents on the aminal part. Good yields and enantioselectivities up to 91 % were obtained in Michael additions to nitroolefins or vinyl sulfones.