Syntheses of homochiral 1,2-ferrocene-functionalized Lewis acids and acid/base pairs

Journal of Organometallic Chemistry

Volumn 696, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2528-2532

  Siewert, Inke ^a,b   Vidovic, Dragoslav ^a,c   Aldridge, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Enantioselective synthesis; Ferrocenes; Lewis acid base pair; Planar chirality

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL INDUCTION; ENANTIOMERIC EXCESS; ENANTIOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS; FERROCENES; HOMOCHIRAL; LEWIS ACID; LEWIS ACID/BASE PAIR; PLANAR CHIRALITY;

ENANTIOMERS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79957706017     PISSN: 0022328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2011.03.026     Document Type: Article

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