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SUBMITTER: Hutson GE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3964813 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hutson Gerri E GE Türkmen Yunus E YE Rawal Viresh H VH
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20130325 13
A novel class of chiral 5,5'-di(2,4,6-trialkyl)aryl salen-metal complexes have been developed and shown to catalyze highly enantioselective Nazarov cyclization reactions, giving rise to cyclopentenoids in 90:10-98:2 er. Significantly, the catalysts also promote, for the first time, highly enantioselective Nazarov reactions of "unactivated" dienones, producing hydrindenone products having in place three contiguous chiral centers. ...[more]