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SUBMITTER: Hu G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2783389 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20091101 43
Studies are described that were designed to determine the structure of the active catalyst in the asymmetric catalytic aziridination of imines with ethyl diazoacetate (AZ reaction). Evidence suggests that the active catalyst contains a boroxine ring in which one of the three boron atoms is spiro-fused with the two phenol groups of the VAPOL ligand. (11)B and (1)H NMR evidence supports the boroxinate structure B in which the counterion to the boroxinate is the protonated form of the imine. The bo ...[more]