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SUBMITTER: Plaza M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7537568 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20200602 31
Trisubstituted allenes with a 3-(1'-alkenylidene)-pyrrolidin-2-one motif were successfully deracemized (13 examples, 86-98 % ee) employing visible light (λ=420 nm) and a chiral triplet sensitizer as the catalyst (2.5 mol %). The photocatalyst likely operates by selective recognition of one allene enantiomer via hydrogen bonds and by a triplet-sensitized racemization process. Even a tetrasubstituted allene (45 % ee) and a seven-membered 3-(1'-alkenylidene)-azepan-2-one (62 % ee) could be enantiom ...[more]