Enhanced enantioselectivity in heterogeneous manganese-catalyzed asymmetric epoxidation with nanosheets modified amino acid Schiff bases as ligands by modulating the orientation and the arrangement order

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/j.jcat.2021.08.015

Catalytic enantioselective epoxidation of olefins plays an important role in the production of optically-active epoxy. Transition-metal complexes prove efficient for the catalytic epoxidation of un-functionalized olefins by employing privileged chiral lig