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SUBMITTER: Yeung CT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6385101 | biostudies-other | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Yeung Chi-Tung CT Chan Wesley Ting Kwok WTK Lo Wai-Sum WS Law Ga-Lai GL Wong Wing-Tak WT
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20190212 3
The synthesis of a new CF₃-containing stereogenic atropisomeric pair of ortho-disubstituted biphenyl scaffold is presented. The atropisomers are surprisingly conformationally stable for isolation. X-ray structures show that their stability comes from an intramolecular hydrogen bond formation from their two hydroxyl groups and renders the spatial arrangement of their peripheral CF₃ and CH₃ groups very different. The synthesized stereogenic scaffold proved to be effective in catalyzing the asymmet ...[more]