interesting and important to perform a nitrogen or oxygen selective reaction with interesting substrates. These atom specific reactions are crucial to specifically synthesis of specific compounds. An enantioselective N‐specific reaction of nitrosobenzene with unmodified aldehydes was successfully achieved catalyzed first by a variety of primaryamine‐based organocatalysts with higher yield and enantioselectivity
p‐nitrobenzoic acid, the O‐nitroso aldol reaction of nitrosobenzene with enolisable aldehydes may be promoted by commercially available α,α‐diphenylprolinol trimethylsilylether. The reaction proceeds with good yields and essentially complete enantioselectivity, with catalyst loadings in the 5–10 mol % range. The resulting α‐oxyaldehyde adducts may be transformed in situ into α‐oxyimines, which provide 1,2‐amino
A directasymmetric hydroxyamination reaction of aldehydes with nitrosobenzene was found to be catalyzed by the novel axially chiral secondary amine catalyst (S)-1d. The resulting optically enriched hydroxyamination products were readily converted to beta-amino alcohols or 1,2-diamines in one pot.