Dramatic temperature effect in asymmetric catalysis in the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aldehydes
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- No. 4,p. 381-382
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a808920e
Abstract
The enantioselectivity of the addition of diethylzinc to aryl aldehydes catalysed by (S)-2-(3-methyl-2-pyridyl)-3,5-di-tert-butylphenol have been found to depend heavily on temperature with the inversion temperatures affected by the para-substituents of aryl aldehydes.Keywords
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