An efficient and recyclable mesoporous silica-grafted bifunctional acid–base organocatalyst for the Michael addition of ketones to β-nitrostyrenes has been synthesized by click chemistry, affording the products with excellent diastereoselectivity. A remarkable enhancement in the reaction rates could be observed with respect to the corresponding monofunctional organocatalyst.
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Jain et al. (2011) studied this question.