“…Anions of β-amino-α-enones are potentially useful bidentate ligands (Jones, et al, 1998;Shukla, et al, 2005;Hsu, Li et al, 2007;Lesikar, et al, 2008;Sedai, et al, 2008) in stoichiometric (Hsu, Chang et al, 2004) and catalytic processes (He, et al, 2003;Lai, et al, 2005;Li, et al, 2005;Tang, et al, 2005;Pan, et al, 2008). Generally, β-amino-α-enones have Z conformations that are stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonds (Zharkova, et al, 2009;Pastrán et al, 2011).…”