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Chemical and biological synthesis of chiral epoxides

Pascale Besse, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1994 - 
- Vol. 50, Iss: 30, pp 8885-8927
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The chiral epoxidation of olefins with per&d8 and monooxygenases with cytochromes P-450 shows good chiral recognition ability, and the chiral reagents used in this synthesis show low levels of chiral specificity.
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This article is published in Tetrahedron.The article was published on 1994-01-01. It has received 251 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sharpless epoxidation & Enantioselective synthesis.

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Advances in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation

TL;DR: This paper presents results of aalysis experiment conducted at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Dalian 116023) and Jingmen Technological College (Jingmen 448000) using gas chromatography for the recovery of Na6(CO3) from Na2SO4.
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Organocatalytic Oxidation. Asymmetric Epoxidation of Olefins Catalyzed by Chiral Ketones and Iminium Salts

TL;DR: Ketones with an Attached Chiral Moiety, Chiral Iminium Salt-Catalyzed Epoxidation, and Other Carbohydrate-Based Catalysts 3976 2.8.2.
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α,α-Diarylprolinol Ethers: New Tools for Functionalization of Carbonyl Compounds

TL;DR: Alpha,alpha-diaryl(dialkyl)prolinol ethers constitute a potent organocatalyst family which has been shown to be very general for a broad range of reactions involving enamine and iminium ion activation or a combination of both.
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Vanadium-catalyzed asymmetric oxidations

TL;DR: Chirally modified vanadium complexes have been used as catalysts in enantioselective epoxidations of allylic alcohols and asymmetric sulfide to sulfoxide oxidations as discussed by the authors.
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First practical method for asymmetric epoxidation

TL;DR: In this article, a metal alkoxide is used as a catalyst, where the metal has a coordination number of at least four, and at least one, usually two, of the alkoxide groups bonded to the metal are bonded to asymmetric carbon atoms.
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Catalytic asymmetric epoxidation and kinetic resolution: modified procedures including in situ derivatization

TL;DR: The use of 3A or 4A molecular sieves substantially increases the scope of the titanium(IV)-catalyzed asymmetric epoxidation of primary allylic alcohols as mentioned in this paper.
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Enantioselective Epoxidation of Unfunctionalized Olefins Catalyzed by (salen)Manganese Complexes

TL;DR: The FTIR spectrum properties of compound IIIA,B are consistent with the presence of SO3groups attached to the aromatic rings of polysemiquinone polyaniline.
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The Osmium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Dihydroxylation: A New Ligand Class and a Process Improvement

TL;DR: In this paper, two key improvements in the osmiuun-catalyzed asymmetric dihydroxylation have led to a simple procedure which is applicable to a wide range of olefins.
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