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flash-chromatography (AcOEt/cyclohexane, 30: 70) and analyzed
by chiral HPLC (71% ee, 60% yield). The catalyst recovered by
decantation was dried and reused in a renewed catalytic run.
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10 M. Torres, A. Maisse-François and S. Bellemin-Laponnaz,
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