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Pavel Kocovsky
Researcher at University of Leicester
Publications - 105
Citations - 1537
Pavel Kocovsky is an academic researcher from University of Leicester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Catalysis & Allylic rearrangement. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 105 publications receiving 1483 citations. Previous affiliations of Pavel Kocovsky include Charles University in Prague & University of Glasgow.
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Synthesis of enantiomerically pure binaphthyl derivatives. Mechanism of the enantioselective, oxidative coupling of naphthols and designing a catalytic cycle
TL;DR: Three different mechanisms have been identified for the CuCl 2 -mediated oxidative coupling of naphthols to binaphthyls in the presence of chiral amines (sparteine or α-methylbenzylamine); fair to excellent enantioselection has been observed.
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Synthesis of enantiomerically pure 2,2'-dihydroxy-1,1'-binaphthyl, 2,2'-diamino-1,1'-binaphthyl, and 2-amino-2'-hydroxy-1,1'-binaphthyl. Comparison of processes operating as diastereoselective crystallization and as second order asymmetric transformation
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Selective Cross-Coupling of 2-Naphthol and 2-Naphthylamine Derivatives. A Facile Synthesis of 2,2',3-Trisubstituted and 2,2',3,3'-Tetrasubstituted 1,1'-Binaphthyls
Martin Smrcina,Stepan Vyskocil,Bohumil Maca,M. Polasek,Thomas A. Claxton,Andrew P. Abbott,Pavel Kocovsky +6 more
TL;DR: The 1,1'-binaphthyls with OH and/or NHR (R=H or Ph) groups in the 2,2'-positions and with additional methoxy carbonyl group(s) in the 3, or 3,'-positions (13-18) have been synthesized from their respective precursors 1-5 by the CuCl 2 /t-BuNH 2 -mediated oxidative cross-coupling.
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Asymmetric reduction of imines with trichlorosilane, catalyzed by sigamide, an amino acid-derived formamide: scope and limitations.
TL;DR: Enantioselective reduction of ketimines 6-10 with trichlorosilane can be catalyzed by the N-methyl valine-derived Lewis-basic formamide (S)-23 (Sigamide) with high enantioselectedivity and low catalyst loading at room temperature in toluene.
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New Lewis-basic N-oxides as chiral organocatalysts in asymmetric allylation of aldehydes.
Andrei V. Malkov,Mark Bell,Monica Orsini,Daniele Pernazza,Antonio Massa,Pavel Herrmann,Premji Meghani,Pavel Kocovsky +7 more
TL;DR: Solvent effects on the conversion and the level of asymmetric induction have been elucidated, and MeCN has been identified as the optimal solvent for these catalysts.