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SUBMITTER: Dobish MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3326820 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20120330 14
Highly enantioselective halolactonizations have been developed that employ a chiral proton catalyst-N-iodosuccinimide (NIS) reagent system in which the Brønsted acid is used at catalyst loadings as low as 1 mol %. An approach that modulates the achiral counterion (equimolar to the neutral chiral ligand-proton complex present at low catalyst loadings) to optimize the enantioselection is documented for the first time in this transformation. In this way, unsaturated carboxylic acids are converted t ...[more]