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SUBMITTER: Gustafson JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3066098 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20100601 5983
Despite the widespread use of axially chiral, or atropisomeric, biaryl ligands in modern synthesis and the occurrence of numerous natural products exhibiting axial chirality, few catalytic methods have emerged for the direct asymmetric preparation of this compound class. Here, we present a tripeptide-derived small-molecule catalyst for the dynamic kinetic resolution of racemic biaryl substrates. The reaction proceeds via an atropisomer-selective electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction using ...[more]