Royal Society of Chemistry, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 3(7), p. 483-487
DOI: 10.1039/b817283h
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Aminoindanol-derived thioureas catalyze proton transfer and do not stabilise anions in an asymmetric conjugate addition to pyrazole crotonate. Calculations show that the urea H-bonds play different roles in the preferred transition state and in the one leading to the minor enantiomer in the mechanism of hydroxy-thiourea catalyzed conjugate additions to pyrazole crotonates.