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SUBMITTER: Mei Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2940055 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20100901 37
The development of aqueous methods for generating enantiopure β-hydroxy carbonyl compounds is an important goal because these subunits compose many bioactive compounds and the ability to synthesize these groups in water has environmental and cost benefits. In this communication, we report a new class of ligands for aqueous, lanthanide-catalyzed, asymmetric Mukaiyama aldol reactions for the synthesis of chiral β-hydroxy ketones. Furthermore, we have used luminescence-decay measurements to unveil ...[more]