BINOLAM, a recoverable chiral ligand for bifunctional enantioselective catalysis: The asymmetric synthesis of cyanohydrins

Organic Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 2589-2592

  Casas, Jesús ^a   Nájera, Carmen ^a   Sansano, José M ^a   Saá, José M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE; BINAP, 2 NAPHTHOL; BINAP, 2-NAPHTHOL; CYANOHYDRIN; ENZYME; LIGAND; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; NITRILE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENZYMES; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NAPHTHALENES; NITRILES; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 1642466422     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0262338     Document Type: Article

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41. 4), and evaporated, affording a residue that was purified by flash chromatography to obtain pure cyanohydrins 4.