Efficient lanthanide catalysis in aminoacyl-transfer from the bipyridine-functionalized amide-substrate to alcohols at ambient temperature

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/cl.1996.295

Lanthanide cations showed high catalytic activities in aminoacylation of alcohols by the amide-substrates having bipyridine as a metal chelation site at 30°C (first-order rate constants were 10^-4 s^-1 range at Ce³⁺/substrate = 0.2), yielding corresponding amino acid esters almost quantitatively.