Preparation of highly optically pure homochiral sulfide-containing alcohols via oxazaborolidine-catalyzed asymmetric borane reduction of ketones

Chirality

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 341-346

  Xu, Jiaxi ^a   Wei, Tiezheng ^a   Xia, Jiakun ^a   Zhang, Qihan ^a   Wu, Hesong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asymmetric reduction; Borane; Enantioselectivity; Homochirality; Ketone; Oxazaborolidine; Secondary alcohol

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; BORANE DERIVATIVE; KETONE DERIVATIVE; OXAZABOROLIDINE DERIVATIVE; PHENYL GROUP; SULFIDE; SULFUR; THIOPHENYL ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHIRALITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INHIBITION KINETICS; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; SYNTHESIS;

ALCOHOLS; BORANES; BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; KETONES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; STEREOISOMERISM; SULFIDES; TEMPERATURE;

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; NETWORK DOMAINS; SOFTWARE BROKERS; SOFTWARE SERVICES;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); QUALITY OF SERVICE; RELIABILITY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 3042635943     PISSN: 08990042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chir.20048     Document Type: Article

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