• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.32 no.10
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• pp.3738-3742
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• 2011

Bismuth tribromide ($BiBr_3$) catalyzed Mannich-type reactions of N-acyliminium ions which generated in situ from N-benzyloxycarbonylamino p-tolylsulfones have been developed. In the presence of catalytic amount of $BiBr_3$, N-benzyloxycarbonylamino p-tolylsulfones prepared from aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes reacted with silyl enol ether and silyl enol ester under mild reaction conditions to afford N-Cbz-protected ${\beta}$-amino ketones and N-Cbz-protected ${\beta}$-amino esters in moderate to good yield, respectively.