| Literature DB >> 29711141 |
Christian Girard1, Henri B Kagan2.
Abstract
Who would have thought before 1986 that an enantiomerically impure catalyst could give a product in an asymmetric synthesis with an enantiomeric excess higher than that of the catalyst? Until then it was assumed that the ee value of the product (eeprod ) from an asymmetric synthesis was linearly correlated to the ee value of the chiral auxiliary (eeaux )-in fact a large deviation is possible (see diagram). These nonlinear effects are not only of academic interest since they have a variety of practical uses, which are highlighted in this review. © 1998 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Fed. Rep. of Germany.Keywords: Asymmetric amplification; Asymmetric catalysis; Asymmetric synthesis; Autocatalysis; Chiral auxiliaries
Year: 1998 PMID: 29711141 DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19981116)37:21<2922::AID-ANIE2922>3.0.CO;2-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl ISSN: 1433-7851 Impact factor: 15.336