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SUBMITTER: Hsieh SY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6926419 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20191112 46
The catalytic, enantioselective <i>N</i>-oxidation of substituted pyridines is described. The approach is predicated on a biomolecule-inspired catalytic cycle wherein high levels of asymmetric induction are provided by aspartic-acid-containing peptides as the aspartyl side chain shuttles between free acid and peracid forms. Desymmetrizations of bis(pyridine) substrates bearing a remote pro-stereogenic center substituted with a group capable of hydrogen bonding to the catalyst are demonstrated. O ...[more]