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SUBMITTER: Burke CP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2783705 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Burke Christopher P CP Shi Yian Y
Organic letters 20091101 22
A variety of nonconjugated cis-olefins has been enantioselectively epoxidized with chiral ketones 2, and up to 92% ee has been obtained. The two prochiral faces of an olefin are likely stereodifferentiated by the relative hydrophobicity of the olefin substituents and/or allylic oxygen functionality. ...[more]