doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.59engCastán, A.Badorrey, R.Gálvez, J.A.Díaz de Villegas, M.D.Synthesis of new pyrrolidine-based organocatalysts and study of their use in the asymmetric Michael addition of aldehydes to nitroolefinsART-2017-98646New pyrrolidine-based organocatalysts with a bulky substituent at C2 were synthesized from chiral imines derived from (R)-glyceraldehyde acetonide by diastereoselective allylation followed by a sequential hydrozirconation/iodination reaction. The new compounds were found to be effective organocatalysts for the Michael addition of aldehydes to nitroolefins and enantioselectivities up to 85% ee were achieved.2017http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/6128610.3762/bjoc.13.59http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/61286oai:zaguan.unizar.es:61286info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/GAE-102BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 13 (2017), 612-619byhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess