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SUBMITTER: Daubignard J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6123616 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20170912 42
Rational design of catalysts for asymmetric transformations is a longstanding challenge in the field of catalysis. In the current contribution we report a catalyst in which a hydrogen bond between the substrate and the catalyst plays a crucial role in determining the selectivity and the rate of the catalytic hydrogenation reaction, as is evident from a combination of experiments and DFT calculations. Detailed insight allowed in silico mutation of the catalyst such that only this hydrogen bond in ...[more]