Chiral Ionic Liquids for Asymmetric Reactions

Catalytic Methods in Asymmetric Synthesis: Advanced Materials, Techniques, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 323-344

  Gaumont, Annie Claude ^a   Génisson, Yves ^b   Guillen, Frédéric ^c   Zgonnik, Viacheslav ^b   Plaquevent, Jean Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III   (France)

^c INSA   (France)

Author keywords

Chiral ionic liquids (CILs), asymmetric reactions polyfunctional complex molecule synthesis; Chiral solvents, on reaction enantioselectivity focus on solvent mediated chirality transfer; CILs, and chiral reagents as solvent, asymmetric induction in enantioselective process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886010914     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118087992.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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