The N,N'-dioxide-Cu(I) complexes have been developed to catalyze the addition of nitromethane to N-tosyl aldimines. The aza-Henry reaction proceeds smoothly affording the corresponding nitro amines in good yields with high enantioselectivities. A catalytic cycle is proposed to explain the origin of reactivity.
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Zhou et al. (2007) studied this question.