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SUBMITTER: Vara BA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4708058 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20150603 23
Carbon dioxide exhibits many of the qualities of an ideal reagent: it is nontoxic, plentiful, and inexpensive. Unlike other gaseous reagents, however, it has found limited use in enantioselective synthesis. Moreover, unprecedented is a tool that merges one of the simplest biological approaches to catalysis-Brønsted acid/base activation-with this abundant reagent. We describe a metal-free small molecule catalyst that achieves the three component reaction between a homoallylic alcohol, carbon diox ...[more]