ChemInform Abstract: Chiral N-Heterocyclic Carbene/Lewis Acid Cooperative Catalysis of the Reaction of 2-Aroylvinylcinnamaldehydes: A Switch of the Reaction Pathway by Lewis Acid Activation.
While chiral triazole carbenes catalyze an intramolecular cyclization reaction of title compounds (I), a combination of triazole carbene and Ti(OiPr)4 catalyzes the intramolecular dimerization to afford indeno-furan-derivatives (II) with high stereoselectivities under the same reaction conditions.