Ruthenium(salen)-catalyzed aerobic oxidative desymmetrizatin of meso-diols and its kinetics

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 127, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5396-5413

  Shimizu, Hideki ^a   Onitsuka, Satoaki ^a   Egami, Hiromichi ^a   Katsuki, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; CATALYSIS; DISSOCIATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; REACTION KINETICS; RUTHENIUM;

LIGANDS; MESO-DIOLS; OXIDATIVE DESYMMETRIZATION; PHOTOIRRADIATION;

COMPLEXATION;

ALCOHOL; RUTHENIUM COMPLEX;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ALCOHOL OXIDATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHIRALITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; LIGAND BINDING; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; OXIDATION KINETICS; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 17644416367     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja047608i     Document Type: Article

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