Influence of the conformation of salen complexes on the stereochemistry of the asymmetric epoxidation of olefins

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2566-2574

  Scheurer, Andreas ^a   Maid, Harald ^a   Hampel, Frank ^a   Saalfrank, Rolf W ^a   Toupet, Loic ^b   Mosset, Paul ^c   Puchta, Ralph ^a   Van Eikema Hommes, Nico J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Universite de Rennes   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Asymmetric catalysis; Conformation analysis; Density functional calculations; N,O ligand complexes; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 20744443014     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200500042     Document Type: Article

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