Mechanistic investigation leads to a synthetic improvement in the hydrolytic kinetic resolution of terminal epoxides
Mechanistic investigation leads to a synthetic improvement in the hydrolytic kinetic resolution of terminal epoxides
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DOI:
10.1021/ja038590z
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发表时间:
2004-02-11
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15
通讯作者:
Jacobsen, EN
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作者:
Nielsen, LPC;Stevenson, CP;Jacobsen, EN
The mechanism of the hydrolytic kinetic resolution (HKR) of terminal epoxides was investigated by kinetic analysis using reaction calorimetry. The chiral (salen)Co−X complex (X = OAc, OTs, Cl) undergoes irreversible conversion to (salen)Co−OH during the course of the HKR and thus serves as both precatalyst and cocatalyst in a cooperative bimetallic catalytic mechanism. This insight led to the identification of more active catalysts for the HKR of synthetically useful terminal epoxides.