Elucidation of the active conformation of cinchona alkaloid catalyst and chemical mechanism of alcoholysis of meso anhydrides

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 48, 2010, Pages 20625-20629

  Li, Hongming ^a   Liu, Xiaofeng ^a   Wu, Fanghui ^a   Tang, Liang ^a   Deng, Li ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cinchona alkoloid; Desymmetrization; General base catalysis; Hydrogen bonding; Organocatalysis

Indexed keywords

ACID ANHYDRIDE; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; CINCHONA ALKALOID;

ALCOHOLYSIS; ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; BIOCATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENANTIOMER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

CINCHONA;

EID: 78650572597     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004439107     Document Type: Article

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