Water-soluble chiral ruthenium(II) phenyloxazoline complex: Reusable and highly enantioselective catalyst for intramolecular cyclopropanation reactions

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 354, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 3435-3439

  Abu Elfotoh, Abdel Moneim ^a,b   Nguyen, Diem Phuong Thi ^a   Chanthamath, Soda ^a   Phomkeona, Kesiny ^a   Shibatomi, Kazutaka ^a   Iwasa, Seiji ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

asymmetric synthesis; biphasic medium; cyclopropanation; ruthenium; water soluble catalyst

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871070208     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: 16154169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201200508     Document Type: Article

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