| Literature DB >> 27763714 |
Johanna Novacek1, Joseph A Izzo2, Mathew J Vetticatt2, Mario Waser1.
Abstract
Chiral bifunctional urea-containing ammonium salts were found to be very efficient catalysts for asymmetric α-hydroxylation reactions of β-ketoesters with oxaziridines under base-free conditions. The reaction is accompanied by a simultaneous kinetic resolution of the oxaziridine and a plausible and so far unprecedented bifunctional transition-state model has been obtained by means of DFT calculations.Entities:
Keywords: asymmetric catalysis; ion pairs; non-covalent interactions; resolution; transition-state model
Year: 2016 PMID: 27763714 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201604153
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chemistry ISSN: 0947-6539 Impact factor: 5.236