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SUBMITTER: Funk TW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2533259 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20060201 6
The synthesis of olefin metathesis catalysts containing chiral, monodentate N-heterocyclic carbenes and their application to asymmetric ring-closing metathesis (ARCM) are reported. These catalysts retain the high levels of reactivity found in the related achiral variants (1a and 1b). Using the parent chiral catalysts 2a and 2b and derivatives that contain steric bulk in the meta positions of the N-bound aryl rings (catalysts 3-5), five- through seven-membered rings were formed in up to 92% ee. T ...[more]