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Readily available ruthenium complex for efficient dynamic kinetic resolution of aromatic α-hydroxy ketones
Agrawal, Santosh,Martinez-Castro, Elisa,Marcos, Rocio,Martin-Matute, Belen
supporting information, p. 2256 - 2259 (2014/05/06)
A ruthenium complex formed from commercially available [Ru(p-cymene)Cl 2]2 and 1,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane catalyzes the racemization of aromatic α-hydroxy ketones very efficiently at room temperature. The racemization is fully compatible with a kinetic resolution catalyzed by a lipase from Pseudomonas stutzeri. This is the first example of dynamic kinetic resolution of α-hydroxy ketones at ambient temperature in which the metal and enzyme catalysts work in concert in one pot at room temperature to give quantitative yields of esters of α-hydroxy ketones with very high enantioselectivity.
