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Designing new chiral ketone catalysts. Asymmetric epoxidation of cis-olefins and terminal olefins
Tian, Hongqi,She, Xuegong,Yu, Hongwu,Shu, Lianhe,Shi, Yian
, p. 2435 - 2446 (2007/10/03)
This paper describes a new class of chiral oxazolidinone ketone catalyst for asymmetric epoxidation. High ee values have been obtained for a number of cyclic and acyclic cis-olefins. The epoxidation was stereospecific with no isomerization observed in the epoxidation of acyclic systems. Encouragingly high ee values have also been obtained for a number of terminal olefins. Mechanistic studies show that electronic interactions play an important role in stereodifferentiation.
