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Fe-catalyzed thioesterification of carboxylic esters
Magens, Silja,Plietker, Bernd
, p. 8807 - 8809 (2011/09/16)
Second nature: Starting from shelf-stable aryl esters and thiols, a variety of carboxylic acid esters were transformed into the corresponding thioesters with no racemization of labile stereocenters (see scheme). The method was successfully applied in a native chemical-ligation-type peptide formation, which suggests that the thiol may act as a co-catalyst for future 1,2-additions of pronucleophiles to carboxylic esters.
