Exploiting C3-symmetry in the dynamic coordination of a chiral trisoxazoline to copper(II): Improved enantioselectivity, and catalyst stability in asymmetric lewis acid catalysis

Chemical Communications

Volumn , Issue 40, 2005, Pages 5115-5117

  Foltz, Carole ^a,b   Stecker, Björn ^a,b   Marconi, Guido ^a   Bellemin Laponnaz, Stéphane ^b   Wadepohl, Hubert ^a   Gade, Lutz H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; CARBON; COPPER; LEWIS ACID; OXAZOLINE DERIVATIVE; TRISOXAZOLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINATION; ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHIRALITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVALENT BOND; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; ESTERIFICATION; MANNICH REACTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; QUANTUM YIELD; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 27644592875     PISSN: 13597345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b509571a     Document Type: Article

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