PINDY: A novel, pinene-derived bipyridine ligand and its application in asymmetric, copper(I)-catalyzed allylic oxidation

Organic Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 20, 2000, Pages 3047-3049

  Malkov, Andrei V ^a   Bella, Marco ^a   Langer, Vratislav ^b   Kočovský, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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68. Apparently, the reaction requires a trace of water since adding molecular sieves resulted in a dramatic deceleration (though the enantioselectivity remained essentially unaffected).
69. 26 have different "optimal substrates"; in the case of PINDY it is 11c that gives the highest enantioselectivity.