Dual role of pyridine N-oxides in ruthenium porphyrin-catalyzed asymmetric epoxidation of olefins

Inorganic Chemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1446-1449

  Gross, Zeev ^a   Ini, Santiago ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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EID: 0000582956     PISSN: 00201669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ic981021l     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. Higuchi, T.; Ohtake, H.; Hirobe, M. Tetrahedron Lett. 1989, 30, 6545.
2. 1,3,5 whereas manganese porphyrins catalyze the opposite reaction, that is, oxidation of pyridine to its oxide: Thellend, A.; Battioni, P.; Sanderson, W.; Mansuy, D. Synthesis 1997, 1387.
3. (b) For the limited utilization of aliphatic N-oxides in combination with first-row metalloporphyrins, see: Bruice, T. C.; Dicken, C. M.; Balasubramanian, P. N.; Woon, T. C.; Lu, F.-L. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1987, 109. 3436 and references therein.