The synthesis of high loading and recyclable pentaerythritol supported imidazolidin-4-one catalyst I and its application in enantioselective Diels-Alder reactions of cyclopentadiene and a,b-unsaturated aldehydes with high performance were described. Especially noteworthy, the pentaerythritol supported imidazolidin-4-one with high loading capacity can be recovered by simple precipitation and filtration, and recycled for up to four runs without observing significant decrease in catalytic activity.
Graphical AbstractO + endo exo catalyst (10 mol% catalyst monomer) Solvent, T( o C) + CHO Ph Ph CH O HX (10 mol%)
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