Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Science, 17(12), p. 6064-6072, 2021
DOI: 10.1039/d1sc00856k
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The activation of both aromatic and aliphatic ureas as N-centered nucleophiles in intramolecular Michael addition reactions to α,β-unsaturated esters was achieved under bifunctional iminophosphorane squaramide superbase catalysis.